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Smoking Guns: #2 – Dreams behind the store

Smoking Guns: #2 – Dreams behind the store

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 13, 2012 13 Comments

The second of the Smoking Guns series. While everything else may be explained by stretching the meaning of “coincidence,” those damned boxes undermine any conventional explanation.

Smoking Guns: #1 – Night Fog – Possible Conclusion

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 12, 2012 4 Comments

This is the best I’ve got in the way of an explanation for the events described in “Smoking Guns: #1 – Night Fog.” It ain’t much, but it’s the best I can do.

Smoking Guns: #1 – The Night Fog

Smoking Guns: #1 – The Night Fog

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 11, 2012 8 Comments

This is the first “Smoking Gun” incident. It describes an event so unusual, yet so well attested, that it can only stand as evidence that life is not entirely material in its essence.

Smoking Guns: Introduction

Smoking Guns: Introduction

By Frank Lee MeiDere April 10, 2012 10 Comments

[Note to visitors from Comics Curmudgeon -- despite the title, these posts will have nothing to do with either Judge Parker or Rex Morgan, MD. Sorry about that.] Two incidents in my childhood had truly profound effects upon me. The first was the night Death stood at the foot of my bed. I was about [...]

Abortion put simply

Abortion put simply

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 22, 2012 18 Comments

Introduction [NOTE: This article is also available for download in a relatively attractive, illustrated PDF format: Abortion put simply.] Recently the abortion debate has reared its unattractive head again, largely inspired by the Texan “House Bill 15″ requiring pregnant women to undergo a sonogram before having an abortion. Sonograms offer extremely detailed images, making the [...]

Digging through boxes

Digging through boxes

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 12, 2012 16 Comments

While cleaning out the locker I discovered something very interesting — using old photos and sketches for a blog post is way easier than actually writing one.

V8 Juice and Canadian unity

V8 Juice and Canadian unity

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 9, 2012 8 Comments

In 1994, during a crisis in Canadian unity, one food manufacturing company quietly stepped in to help ward off an imminent invasion from the United States. In this post we salute V8 Juice for helping to keep Canada a sovereign nation.

Jessica Simpson, Demi Moore, and me

Jessica Simpson, Demi Moore, and me

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 8, 2012 14 Comments

Yesterday I set upon an experiment in bringing hundreds and hundreds of readers to my blog. Did it work? Well, yes and no.

Six pieces of advice for parenting while cooking in exotic locations during a photoshoot on the journey to becoming a writer — all in list form!

Six pieces of advice for parenting while cooking in exotic locations during a photoshoot on the journey to becoming a writer — all in list form!

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 6, 2012 16 Comments

WordPress has a feature called “Freshly Pressed” in which 19 posts are published on the WordPress front page. These posts are meant to represent the “best” of all WordPress bloggers. That certainly seemed to be true when I first noticed them a couple of years ago. They were diverse, well written, and frequently over 1,000 [...]

Chicken art and Canadian politics

Chicken art and Canadian politics

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 5, 2012 20 Comments

At the end of “When Pookas attack,” I intended to link to an article I did back in 1997 called “Chicken art and Canadian unity” –  a review on Rob Thompson’s art performance piece in which he protested treatment of commercially-bred chickens by putting two people in a cage for a week. But then I [...]