Best Turn-of-Phrase Award ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Good rhetoric sometimes makes a point with humor, sometimes with cleverness, sometimes with surprise. When a rhetorical turn-of-phrase hits all three with one fell swoop, it deserves an award. Here is this week’s VernonMilesKerr.com award for Best Turn-of-Phrase: David A. Graham, writing in The Atlantic “Earlier this… Read More Opinion | My Weekly “Best Turn-of-Phrase Award”
Moderator 6.021 ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com It was a great day — a special day, the release of Moderator 6.021. Sixth iteration, twenty-first improvement to the Government. Owledge ordered the wall display to sleep, gathered his wrap and folding-chair’s bag then headed out the door. “Engage security,” he called over his shoulder. The… Read More SciFi | Moderator 6.021
The Righteousness Mob: A Liberal on Liberals by Manfred Wolf Our age has spawned any number of new attitudes and cultural styles. These days many people take great pleasure in “calling out” others, i.e., accusing them of wrongdoing, for which they must be shamed, and for which an apology is demanded, — though when… Read More Opinion | The Righteous Mob: A Liberal on Liberals
The Cognitive Dissonance of Abortion “Rights” © 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com There are three intellectual fictions, which must be accepted in order to avoid cognitive dissonance in supporting the concept of a “right” to abort one’s own fetus, on demand, and without the mother’s own life being endangered by a full-term pregnancy. The… Read More Opinion | The Cognitive Dissonance of Abortion “Rights”
© 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com This is the third iteration of “Fluidics” The reader can use our Search feature to see how the poem has evolved. VMK Fluidics III Ego, Power, Political Influence, Hedonism, Flow inward To be absorbed, And then to rot — In the stench of the grave. Empathy, Human Kindness,… Read More Poetry | Fluidics III
The Poet’s Forge ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com When I think of a forge, I first think of old, bronze Vulcan, at the top of his tower, hammer raised, on a hill overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, my place of nativity. Having first seen him when I was five years old it left a distinct impression. Like… Read More Poetry | The Poet’s Forge
An Open Letter from God This is a copy of text read by Paul Harvey on a radio broadcast clear back in 1998. This says it all. When I read it I was shocked that it mirrored a lot of my writings on this blog and on my Twitter feed @kerr_vernon — but far more… Read More Commentary | A Memo from God
