Last week I wrote about local bullies, and those that terrorize the citizens that elected them locally and nationally. More often than we might have thought, those elected bullies, unsated by the billions they suck from their people’s coffers, opt to extend their reign indefinitely. When they do so, they morph from being barely restrained autocratic bullies, into full-fledged, unrestrained, dictators.
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Roxanne 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 – Doomed to Repeat
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags alternative reality, Biden, Big Lie, Brian Sicknick, Charlottesville, CNN, Constitution, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Doomed to Repeat, Ernst Zundel, Fake News, Final Solution, Glenn Kirschner. Mar A Lago, Governor Gretchen Whitmore, Holocaust, Jamie Raskin, John Cameron Swayze, Josh Hawley, KellyAnne Conway, Korean War, Michigan, Mike Shirkey, Mitch McConnell, MS-NBC, Muslim ban, not guilty, or Huntley and Brinkley, pandemic, Rand Paul, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, segarini, Supreme Court, Tellier, trade war, Twitter, Walter Cronkite, World War II on February 14, 2021 by segariniWhen I was a kid in Montreal, most of the dads (and some of the moms) were veterans of the World War II, and the Korean War, which had ended just a few short months before I was born.
Roxanne Tellier – And Then I Wrote
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags . Anthony Scaramucci, And Then I Wrote, Anonymous, DBAWIS, democracy, Donald Trump, Fake News, H.R. McMaster, Hamilton, Harry Hurt III, Hope Hicks, ideaCity, Illiberal, Ivana Trump, James Comey, James Poniewozik, Jim Acosta, John Bolton, Marie Henein, Mary L. Trump, Michael Wolff, never trumpers, Omarosa Maningault Newman, Paul Ryan, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Rick Reilly, Roger Stone, Sean Spicer, segarini, Tellier, The Room Where It Happened, Victor Davis Hanson on June 21, 2020 by segariniFrom time to time, people have accused me of ‘hating’ Donald Trump irrationally. But really, there’s nothing irrational about me hating the guy. I admit it, I despise him, and everything he is, has been, and currently represents. So should any free-thinking lover of progress, freedom, individual and civil rights, and most of all – democracy.
Roxanne Tellier – Beware of Darkness
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags 1910 Fruitgum Company, Baby Boomers, Beware of Darkness, Bobby Sherman, bubble gum, DBAWIS, Fake News, Friend and Lover, gaslighters. BizarroWorld. Chris Hedges. Woodstock, graduates, Hong Kong flu, Memory Lane, President Obama, segarini, Tellier, The Archies, The Ohio Express, The Partridge Family, Tommy Roe on May 17, 2020 by segariniIt’s a long weekend, and here in my little corner of the city, it’s sunny and warm, with just a gentle breeze ruffling the ferns. My ‘regular customers’ – the little birds, Blue Jays, and squirrels – have already been by for their morning treats and have now gone off to hide from the local felines.
Bob Presents E. Ray Pancake’s Fake News, Bullshit, and Out and Out Lies
Posted in Opinion with tags Bullshit, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fake News, Lies, Parody, Satire, segarini, Toronto on July 6, 2018 by segariniHi.
I’m Bob.
…and being Bob and of a certain age, I must be honest and let you know that because of the heat I am unable to type very much due to a little known condition called “Beckett’s Wobble Fingers”, brought on by the bones in my fingers turning to a rubber-like substance due to eating too much Play Doh as a child. The heat triggers it and I am unable to push down on the keys of my keyboard because my digits are too soft to push hard enough to make them click and form words with letters. This intro is being typed by my housekeeper and care-giver, Dorito Espenoza, a woman who has served my family since the unfortunate events of June 14th, 1946.
Without further ado, Here’s E. Ray…and Senor Bob, you owe me extra for typing this. Stiff me this time, and I will pour red ants in your underwear drawer again….
Roxanne Tellier – Tilting the Mirror
Posted in Opinion with tags ' Sinbad, 'the Mandela effect, Bob Segarini, CERN, cognitive dissonance, DBAWIS, Fake News, Great Society, Kama Sutra, Mr Mxyzptlk, New Deal, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Piketty, Wolfgang Streeck on April 8, 2018 by segariniThere’s a conspiracy theory that’s been around for a few years now, in which people believe that CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) experiments have caused the world to shift into an alternate reality, a parallel universe. They claim that the organization was warned of the possibility by physicist Stephen Hawking, but that the alarm was ignored .. and now, here we are, somewhere other than where we should be..
Roxanne Tellier – Hell to the No to the Fake News
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags #swoleLeft, America, Bill O’Reilly, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Fake News, Nerd Prom, Roxanne Tellier, Trump, Ursula K. LeGuin on February 26, 2017 by segariniAfter a week of schizophrenic weather (it’s hot! it’s cold! it’s raining! it’s snowing!) and even more schizophrenic babblings from the Whiner in Chief to the South of Sanity, it was an enormous relief to make the long drive out past the airport to the cozy home of friends Candice and Eli, for the New Orleans themed Fam-Damily Music Jam Fest. Within minutes of arrival I was draped in Carnival beads and being pulled on stage for some musical improv.