Author Archives: Lorne Anderson
Following Up
The call was a bit late in coming, to put it mildly. By about 27 years. I was forwarded a voice mail message yesterday from a musician looking for feedback on some songs he had submitted for airplay. He said I had told him the station would play them, and he was wondering what the […]
Some Assembly Required?
Cheaper than the chicken with bones, but the taste is rather different.
The Power of Money
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 […]
Darwin Was Wrong
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..
Drifting In
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.
Praying for a Lost Cause?
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 […]
Counting The People
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 […]
New Warning
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 […]
Tastes Like Summer
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, […]
Hidden Ruins
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 […]
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