Roxanne Tellier – The Age of Bullies Part One

As a child, my sister was often the target of bullies. Bullies sniff out the weak, the vulnerable, those who have already experienced the wrath of others. I spent a lot of my own childhood trying to protect Jodi from those who had nothing better to do with their time than to torment a shy, fragile, little girl.

Roxanne Tellier – The Run Down and the Wrap Up

Ah, dang it. Like death and taxes, unwanted summer electoral politics are inescapable.  Rumour has it that our PM Justin Trudeau is determined to call a snap election, reportedly to be held on September 20^th. Why? Because he believes that doing so at this time will ensure his party can win a majority government, allowing him to avoid what he has been calling “opposition obstruction.” 

Roxanne Tellier – Ding Dong Is That Witch Dead Yet?

On Wednesday, I began my column by saying “It’s nighttime in America.”

Today, I’m happy to report that at 11:30 am, on Saturday November 7^th, the media called the 2020 US presidential election, and named as winners former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and his running mate– the first woman elected to the vice presidency– California Senator Kamala Harris.

And suddenly – it’s a new day in America.

Roxanne Tellier – Thanksgiving And VOTE!

I have only two things on my mind today …..

First … Wherever you find yourself this Thanksgiving, on which ever day upon which you choose to celebrate the holiday, enjoy the moment.

I hope you are surrounded with people you love .. or like … or at least with people that you can tolerate, even if only in consideration of a nice, hot, three course meal at some point.

Roxanne Tellier – Lying Liars, Bullies and Cowards

I’ve written before about the dangers of elected officials lying to the public. Twice, in fact. In modern politics, it seems that lying in public has replaced any pretence of integrity or any desire to have one’s tenure be remembered with respect.

Lying breaks our faith in others – once we know that someone will lie to us, we can never again truly trust that person. And it doesn’t matter why the lie was told, because the lie reveals something very important about the liar; the liar is a coward.

Bob Blames Assholes and Morons for Everything …and Tried to Warn You in 2011, 2013, and 2019

A Message from Bob – This was originally written in 2011. This is an updated version from 2013 updated yet again in January of 2019. I believe these are the things that finally delivered President Stoopnagle and his like-minded skid marks around the world to power, and they have become a combination of shingles, rectal itch, hives, projectile diarrhea, herpes, yeast infections, snot-in-your-mustache, and that white foam that appears in the corners of your mouth when you’re tweaking. It is these “leaders” who have let the dogs out.

…and here we are still, hopefully working toward a miracle on November 3rd, 2020, that at least, could put us on a path of healing and repair. And all the while, the Assholes and Morons continue to erode what’s left of decency and common sense.

Why am I reprinting this today? …Because I am tired of having to shower to wash off the slung mud, ill informed babble, and negative angry horseshit every single time I read my Facebook Newsfeed. (…and I had sheepishly changed Assholes and Morons to Asshats and Headcases when this originally ran…I am no longer sheepish, and let’s be honest …assholes and morons are what they are.)

If it wasn’t for Roxanne Tellier and a few others, I would just give up and shit the bed like so many are doing already.

Maybe I’m just in a bad mood and had to climb up on my soapbox/high horse, and let it all out, and I apologize if you think I’m preaching, but I’m not…I’m just sick of all the bullshit. This column still speaks for me, still says what I feel needs to be said again.

You can read this or not. Please leave a comment at the bottom of the column if you do.

I love you either way….

Part Two of The Wackers will run on Monday

Bob Fixes Everything

Like a cow, I have a Tipping Point.

And I reached it years ago. Or rather, I recognized it years ago.

I became distracted, unable to focus, began having trouble enjoying myself, my mind wandering from problem to problem, overwhelmed, unable to concentrate…and I found that I wasn’t the only one suffering from this malaise.

I started paying more attention to what everyone else was talking about on Social Media, on the TTC, in elevators, in check out lines, and on talk radio.

Talking. Complaining. Whining. Yelling. Arguing. …but doing nothing.

From everyday bullshit to world wide idiocy, we have become numb and complacent and defeated. Negativity rules over Positivity.

Well, Boys and Girls…

Time to put on the tool belt and fix this shit….

Segarini – Stopping the Stupid – Another Monday Filler

Here’s the problem….

It’s a holiday in Canada. Thanksgiving, to be exact. We celebrate it a month before Our Pants (that’s YOU, Mr. and Mrs. America) because we like to get it out of the way before the snow comes and turns our roads into slip n’ slides, our wives and girlfriends into our mothers, and ourselves (the men) into starry eyed dreamers who think the Leafs have a chance, the Blue Jays need us to manage them, and whoever our Prime Minister is, is a Poop of the Nincom variety.

My guess (always educated, never mitigated) is that the vast majority of our Canadian brethern and sistern are either just recovering from a turkey-induced tryptophan coma, or about to sit down to a bird-laden card table and ENTER a turkey-induced tryptophan coma. Either way, the result will render today’s column an afterthought and almost impossible to read passed out in front of the flatscreen with your belt undone, pants unzipped, and drool piling up on your shirt like the glaze on a Krispy Kreme donut. Sooo…my promised column has been booted to this coming Friday (where it belongs), Gary Pig Gold’s is postponed until NEXT Monday, and tomorrow, as a reward, the first chapter of Darrell Vicker’s new book begins the serialization of said book, ‘Bu House -Here Comes the Sun. Those gems require your attention, and today, you really don’t have any, so I offer this relevant rerun for those of you who can read while the game is on, the gravy dries on your shirt, or can read even though you are asleep or drunk or adrunksleep.

…and if you don’t believe that tryptophan is the reason you’re dazed and confused, blame it on the Bossa Nova.

 

Roxanne Tellier – All the President’s Men

With two of Trump’s main cohorts, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, now actual convicted felons, it certainly looks like we’re nearing the end of a long and rocky road in American politics. Trump’s misdeeds are beginning to emerge thru the swampy miasma, and while he may continue to scream, “no collusion!” it’s becoming very clear that the ‘best people’ with whom he has surrounded himself, are not being ‘best’ at all. They are felons, and he himself is now the ‘unindicted felon‘ in the room.

Bob VS Social Media – Full Disclosure and a Snake!

When I first landed on Social Media, I was smitten with the opportunity to reach 1000s of people with a few key strokes and hitting ‘enter’, or being able to have a conversation with someone without holding a phone to my ear by using Messenger to ask or answer a question without interrupting whatever I was working on for more than a few seconds.