A long, long time ago, I used to play chess. Not very well, to be honest; I was probably a better backgammon player if anything. Or maybe I wasn’t all that great at either.
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Roxanne Tellier – The Long Road From Normal
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amy Siskind, Big Brother. Justin Trudeau, Bill C51, Canada, Celebrity Apprentice, computers, Congress, CPAC, Daniel Dale, DBAWIS, Dear Leader, Harper, Jared Kushner, Keith Olbermann, Kim Jong Un, Michael Cohen, national emergency, New York Times, normal, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Robert Mueller, Russia, segarini, Tellier, The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, The Resistance, Trump on March 3, 2019 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – That’s Enough Winning, Thanks
Posted in Interview, politics, Review with tags Alex Jones, America, Bob Segarini, Canada, Conklin, DBAWIS, Doug Ford, FordNation, Harper, Horwatch, Ontario, Performer, Roxanne Tellier, Toronto, Trudeau, Trump, winning, Wynne on February 10, 2019 by segarini
A summer, probably around 1982. A small town – might have been Guelph – and a touring rock band from Toronto with time on their hands ….
Peter VS Technology
Posted in Opinion with tags Air Miles, Alberta, C.P.P., Don't Believe a Word I Say, E.I., Employment Insurance, Harper, Luddite, National Service Desk, Ned Ludd, Ohio, Peter Montreuil, Phantom, Robert Segarini, Social Insurance Number, Toronto, Valetta, WKRP on November 23, 2017 by segarini
While researching this column, I discovered some interesting information about Ned Ludd, the founder of the Luddite movement, whose adherents would smash machinery with hammers because they feared job loss from industrialisation. There is some dispute as to whether he, in fact, even existed. Also, at that time, “factories” as we know them today were very rare. Hence it was generally a case of a mob breaking into a private home to destroy the machinery. Undoubtedly this was a recipe for violence.
