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There’s a well-known saying to the effect that from little acorns do one day mighty oaks grow.

Unfortunately, columnists cannot say the same about ideas. That is, not all of one’s supposedly pointed observations eventually bloom into fullblown columns.

Which is why every columnist, great (Christie Blatchford, Alan Fotheringham) and not so great (three guesses and the first two don’t count), occasionally strings together a piece like the one before you today. The flotsam and jetsam of a dangerous mind, if you please.

Like this one: ever notice how if you don’t know how to spell a word, you can’t find it in the dictionary? And yet, the reason you went to the dictionary in the first place is because you needed to find out how to spell that word.

It’s a real puzzle how a village like Belledune and a town like Beresford feel the ward system is warranted for electing councillors.

The City of Bathurst, meanwhile, discarded its ward system some 20 years ago. No offence to anyone, but to me a ward system only makes sense in a larger centre like Moncton or Saint John.

Given that it resembles a horrendously large insect, when you stop and think about it, the first person who ever ate a lobster must have been really hungry.

If you’re ever clicking through the TV channels and happen across Jerry Springer, stop and ask yourself: “What kind of TV show needs bouncers on set? And why am I watching it?” A constant source of amusement in the news business is how when something occurs that casts the government of the day in a good light, politicians flock to reporters like moths to a flame.When it’s something they don’t want to talk about, they go to ground quicker than a soccer player in the World Cup.

Remember when you were a kid and your dad said your music was a bunch of noise? That you should listen to something good, like Tony Bennett or the Kingston Trio, whoever, instead of that garbage by Alice Cooper or NeilYoung? Funny, isn’t it, how today you tell your teenagers they should listen to something good, like Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits, instead of that garbage by Coldplay or 50 Cent.

Last but not least, the mind boggles at how the United Sates has billions to spend on war but no money for a public health care system.Thankful are we to live in Canada.