If Americans want to fix their democracy, they might begin with looking at election financing, When a candidate can receive millions from an individual donor or an organization, you have to wider if there is some influence being purchased. I know the arguments and the court cases that have allowed the system to devolve to […]
There’s a certain amount of truth to that. If there was such a thing as evolution, it seems to have stalled. We don’t see apes becoming human. Though some humans do behave like apes, so maybe evolution reached its peak and is now being reversed..
Like sand dollars and sea glass, chunks of driftwood on the beach in Maine are a lot rarer than in my childhood. I saw these ones in July – probably more in one day than in the past three or four summers combined.
I have mentioned Ottawa’s abysmal transit service here more than once. So many times that I have been avoiding the topic this year..The service hasn’t improved though – despite the promises. The eastern light rail extension should have been opened long ago, but no-one can commit to a date. Will it be this fall? Will […]
Canada has a census every ten years and the government wants to make sure every resident is counted. But what do they do if you don’t fill out the form that is mailed to every Canadian household? They come looking for you. Relentlessly. And, it seems, with threats. This notice has been on one of […]
This was a new one for me. I can’t decide if it is overkill or necessary. In almost seven decades of summertime visits to Old Orchard Beach, I don’t recall seeing this one before. Admittedly the technology to deliver weather warnings to my phone didn’t exist for most of that time. For that matter, neither […]
There’s a phrase from my childhood. Probably from yours too. “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” Yes, I ate it all. No, I won’t do it again. On a warm summer evening ice cream melts almost faster than you can eat it. Okay, I will do it again, but next time a small come, […]
My wife knew they were there, but these ruins were in a part of Ottawa I don’t frequent often. Calling them ruins isn’t technically correct wither. More like public art. The columns are technically ruins, having come from Ottawa’s Carnegie Library, built in 1906. When the library was demolished in the 1970s the columns were […]
The Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opens today between Windsor (Ontario and Detroit (Michigan). It is perhaps a symbol of all that is wrong with the United States today. There has been a need for a new bridge for years at the busiest border crossing between Canada and the USA. The existing Ambassador Bridge can […]
After six days of AI explaining how big a threat it can be, are you convinced? And if you are, does it make any difference? A recurring theme of this past week’s posts, no matter which AI Chabot was giving us advice, was that artificial intelligence can be controlled by its human creators. At this […]
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