With apologies to Al Franken, I am utterly sick of Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them. Sick to death of the posturing, the gaslighting, the sneaky grins that escape their mouths when they think we can’t see them.
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Roxanne Tellier – Musings On Movings and Marijuana for Multinationals
Posted in Books, COVID 19, Family, Health, Humour, life, Opinion, Review with tags Big Business, Big Move, Canada, cannabis, Covid, DBAWIS, Kevin Quain, legalisation, Lift and Co Expo, Marijuana, Metro Convention Centre, moving, pot, psychedelics, segarini, Tellier, The Rex, Toronto, Windsor on December 12, 2021 by segariniToday is the 12th of December, and that means that Shawn and I are exactly one month away from the Big Move, from Toronto, to Windsor, Ontario. The drive is a mere 230 in earth miles, but, in some integral ways, it’s also the equivalent of moving from the Moon to the Sun.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – The Frequency Illusion
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, Baby Boomers, Cats, comfort, confirmation bias, Covid, Cuddle Bug, DBAWIS, Dogs, Facebook, freecycle, Pets, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, selective attention, Seniors, the frequency illusion on December 5, 2021 by segariniHave you ever bought a car, and suddenly noticed that nearly every car you see is the same colour and style? Or, if you are pregnant, have you been surprised to see that it seems that everybody else is pregnant as well?
Continue readingPeter Gets His Shots, Shares His Library Love, and Reviews a Good Book
Posted in Books, COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Anti-Vaxxers, Bob Segarini, Covid, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Nusbaum, LA Dodgers, London ON, Peter Montreuil, PPC, Public Library, Stealing Home, Vaccination on September 16, 2021 by segariniLet me start off this week by stating that I have had both COVID vaccinations and will gladly get a booster shot in a couple of months if it is recommended. I have been wearing a mask and practicing social distancing and taking any precautions available to keep myself safe. During my career with the Canadian government, I got my flu shot every year, not only to protect myself, but to protect those whom I interviewed, as well as my family members and friends.
I posted this comment in response to an article about the virus, and while many people “liked” this comment…..several people “laughed” at it.
Sadly enough there are those out there who minimize the impact of COVID 19 on the world as we know it. They freely post disinformation in the guise of memes and videos, while mocking those who take it rather more seriously.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – Time Enough at Last
Posted in Opinion with tags anxiety, Canadians, Cats, Covid, DBAWIS, Depression, global pandemic, grief, Mental Health Day, procrastination, segarini, Tellier, Time Enough At Last, time wasting, Twilight Zone on April 25, 2021 by segariniWhen it comes to excuses, I’ve got a million of ‘em. Even now, as I should be writing this column, I am thinking of two dozen other things that I should be doing first – like alphabetizing the vitamins in the bathroom cabinet or swinging up to the grocery store for some spices that I won’t need until Halloween.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – What Do You Miss the Most?
Posted in Opinion with tags Angela Merkel, Canada, capitalistic, CERB, civil disobedience, civility, Covid, DBAWIS, Doug Ford, Fake News, Finland, Germany, Golden Girls, grounding, hazard pay, healthcare workers, herd immunity, Jacinda Arden, melting pot, New Zealand, Ontario Hydro, pandemic, pandemic fatigue, public washroom, ScotiaBank, segarini, South Africa, Taiwan, Tellier, vaccinated, vertical mosaic, Wall Street Journal, What Do You Miss the Most, Zoom on April 18, 2021 by segariniA couple of weeks into the start of the COVID pandemic, I asked Shawn if he’d have done anything differently before we entered lockdown, now that we had a little experience with this way of life. We kicked around a few thoughts, but it all being so new, he couldn’t really think of much he could have done to prepare.
We’re pretty low maintenance. We’re retired, have a very small place stuffed with the goods of a lifetime of (my) conspicuous consumption, and really don’t need much to get by. But need is not want, and want is what drives our capitalistic society, which we are all a part of, whether we want to be or not.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – Talking Points and Party Lines
Posted in Opinion with tags 9/11, Adolf Hitler, All Star Game, Big Business, Big Lie, Bill Maher, cognitive bias, Covid, DBAWIS, Democrats, Free Enterprise, Georgia, illusory truth effect, Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Scalia, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, MLB, Morning Joe Scarborough, party lines, political propaganda, Reihan Salam, Republican, Roxanne Tellier, talking points, universal health care, University of Toronto, Vaccine Passports, voter suppression on April 11, 2021 by segariniDuring the trump years, it was a staple of reporting; when asked for their opinion on something the Administration had done, all the top Republican Senators either brushed off reporters with a breezy, “hadn’t heard anything about that yet,” or stopped just long enough to run whatever party line Mitch McConnell had broadcast to them earlier that day, into the microphone.
It was so common that comedy shows often ran clips of the beleaguered Senators, or of Conservative media talking heads, mouthing in lock stop whatever nonsense they’d been fed. Continue reading
Pat Blythe – Christmas lockdown…..other stuff and music
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, CDC, Covid, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Diane Brisbois, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Ford, lockdown, lockdown Peel, lockdown Toronto, luvthemusic, New York Times, non-essential, Ontario, Pat Blythe, Paul Magdar, Retail Council of Canada, Trudeau, Yahoo Finance on November 25, 2020 by segariniThis whole COVID thing is getting long, tiring, confusing and extremely exasperating for most of us. People start to rebel like children in a sandbox who don’t play fair. They confront each other in anger like the bully in the schoolyard. In many instances we seem to live in a rather thoughtless society whose three favourite people seem to be me, myself and I. It doesn’t seem to matter what part of this mudball we inhabit, everyone is infected…..not by the virus, but by fear, bad attitude, frustration, annoyance, (add your own descriptive here). Information, misinformation, ignorance, conspiracy theories, protests and riots, the numbers are over/under inflated/aren’t real….the list goes on. It doesn’t really matter what you believe, it’s affecting all of us. COVID fatigue is real and should have been considered by minds much greater than mine, long before now.