Roxanne Tellier – Rounding It Up, Heading It Out

Since we DBAWIS scribes are about to go on hiatus until September 7th, today’s column is a round up of ideas and issues that have zipped past us in the last few days.

Have you noticed that, the speeding up of events? In the last few years we have become accustomed to barely accommodating the horrors of a day before awakening to the new atrocities of the next. It’s exhausting, and it’s been taking a huge toll on the psyches of not only Americans, but of citizens in countries all around the world.

Roxanne Tellier – Are You Not Entertained?

It was the worst terrorist attack against Hispanics in US history and the eighth-deadliest in modern US history.

Picture in your mind’s eye, a little  2-year-old, recovering from broken bones, who survived the mass shooting at an El Paso Wal-Mart after his 25-year-old mother used her body to shield him and save his life. His mother was fatally shot.

Roxanne Tellier – Protesting in the Era of Trump

A reaction to America’s president telling four Congresswoman of colour to “go back to where they came from?”

Roxanne Tellier – On Pavlovitz, Positivity, Privilege – and the Bossa Nova

John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina, who has a wonderful site called, ‘Stuff That Needs To Be Said.’

Bob Answers All Your Questions

In this herp-a-derp, mile-a-minute, screwed-up-beyond-belief, world in which we live in, there comes a time when someone has to step up and clear the air. Explain the unexplainable, make sense out of nonsense, and thread the needle of confusion, with the yarn of truth. Some say only a Fool would even attempt such a thing …well, Dear Readers …that Fool is Me.

Bob the Canarican Celebrates Post and Pre-Dependence Day!

Happy 152nd Birthday, Canada! Although it has only been 47 years, I feel like I’ve been living here for at least 150 of those 152 years in this, the Greatest Country in North America AND the Rest of the World.

I am a Proud Canarican …or at least I will be again once President Flubber and His Band of Lost Socks are incarcerated or incinerated (choose one), and Adults are back running our Pants.

To celebrate, I offer up this heavily researched, thoroughly accurate FAQ sheet listing the differences between Our Great Land, and Our Once Great Pants.

Most of the following was originally posted in 2015, when the world was a different place. There was cleaner air, prettier sunsets, better television reception, and more than enough Gummy Bears. All of that changed after the advent of the Man Bun and Robot Bingo Callers. No…wait…that was a dream I had after a night of fish tacos and Metaxa.

Never mind….

Roxanne Tellier – Canada Day and The Lie of Choice

Let’s let some talented Youtubers do the talking …