For baby boomers, on whom the shadow of World War II fell the darkest , the post war years teemed with possibility. Our future lay before us like a shimmering landscape, designed by the brilliant minds now free to bring us sci fi and fantasy tales of a world filled with scientific and technical advances beyond our wildest dreams.
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Roxanne Tellier – The Fall of Man
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 'sorry not sorry', . Binders Full of Women, “Let Women Die Bill”, Big Tobacco, Bill Clinton, Bill Maher, Bob Segarini, Celebrity Apprentice, climate change, DBAWIS, Democrats., Donald Trump, equal pay legislation, GOP stands for Grab Our Pussies., Hillary Clinton. stereotypes, Indiana, John Kasich, LGBTQ, Megyn Kelly, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, President Obama, Real Time, Reality TV, Reince Priebus, Republicans, Roxanne Tellier, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Fall of Man, the Violence Against Women Act, zombie apocalypse on October 9, 2016 by segariniA few years back, I used to write recaps of reality shows for a showbiz site. One of the hardest to sit through without gagging was Donald Trump’s‘Celebrity Apprentice.’
Roxanne Tellier – It Is To Laugh!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags #allLifeMatters, 9/11, ABC, Bill de Blasio. Comedy Central, Bill Maher, Bob Segarini, Canadian, Comedy, Conan O’Brien, DBAWIS, Full Frontal, HBO, income inequality.free speech., James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jon Batiste, Jon Stewart, Larry Wilmore, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, late night formula, Laughter, Monty Python, New York, Peaches, Politically Incorrect, racism, Real Time with Bill Maher, Roxanne Tellier, Salon, Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers, South African, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show. political junkie, The Nightly, The Tonight Show, titans of late night, Trevor Noah, Vanity Fair on March 6, 2016 by segariniIn a Salon.com article this week, Steve Almond accused Comedy Central of having “squandered Jon Stewart’s legacy” by appointing South African comedian Trevor Noah as host, over the then-incumbent Samantha Bee.
Roxanne Tellier: The Bare Necessities
Posted in Opinion with tags austerity, Bill Maher, Bob Segarini, California, Chris Christie, Christian, Congress, DBAWIS, despair, Donald Trump, dread., First Nations, God, ISIS, lala land, Louboutin, nameless fear, Necessities, Obamacare, Parliament, patriotism, Real Time, Rocky Marciano, Roxanne Tellier, Scott Walker, Washington Post on August 9, 2015 by segariniI woke up in a great mood this morning. With reason – the last few days have been filled with music and food and friends and more good food. I’m a simple person. My needs are few. Oh, I may grumble and stew and frown at times, but overall … I’m pretty much a human happy face emoji.
Roxanne Tellier: Sad Day In Texas
Posted in Opinion with tags 11/22/63, Abraham Lincoln, Adlai Stevenson, Bedros Keuilian, Bill Maher, Camelot, Dallas, Dallas 1963, DBAWIS, Dion, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George, Human League, Jack Connally, Jack Ruby, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Lady Bird, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lou Reed, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Otis Span, Phil Ochs, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen King, Steve Paikin, Texas, The Agenda, The Beach Boys, The Postal Service, Warren Commission on December 2, 2013 by segariniFifty years on, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy still sparks painful memories in the hearts and minds of North American Baby Boomers. Where were you on November 22, 1963, when the American “Camelot” ended?
Kennedy was an impossibly exotic vision to the families of the 60’s. He was the first Irish Catholic to be elected President, something that at that time seemed as impossible as there ever being an African American in the White House. (Or a woman, for that matter, but that will happen too.) He was young, a war hero, from a large and seemingly happy family, and he seemed so very much what we all wanted our families to look like.