Life
The Vacuum Called Twitter ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on 2/12/2022. After I complained about spending 5 1/2 hours on Twitter yesterday morning, I went back again for an hour or so in the evening. Here
Agnosticism
The Permanent Now ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Originally published as a rough-draft to Twitter on Feb. 5, 2022. I just went “All In” with WordPress and allowed it access to my Twitter Account. So, if it worked, you should be seeing a blurb on Twitter, right
A Second AmericanRevolution
The Second American Revolution ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com America, (even as a group of 13 colonies) has always been an experiment in #Capitalism. Each of those projects to colonize a part of North America’s Eastern edge—whether ostensibly for religious purposes of not—was funded
Agnosticism
Humanity’s Comeuppance ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on Jan. 29, 2022 #FirstCuppaJoe for Jan 29. (thread) I am fascinated by the implications of those U.S. Navy gun-camera videos, of what they are calling”UAP”(Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)
Poetry
Give ‘Em What They Want (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Perhaps the world was always thus, Like sweet and sour pork, Or flaming dog turds on a porch, Or things of that import. The air up there must be sublime, Where one does what he pleases,
The Secular Confessional ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com There were only private Kindergartens in Alabama, when I was five. So my mom taught me to read on her lap, using her great-aunt’s 19th century McGuffey’s readers. When I got to California in time for first
Dystopias
The Expanse, a Review ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 1/14/2022 As a die-hard #trekkie, I cannot stand to even be in the room when #TheExpanse is being watched. The StarTrek franchise portrays a hopeful tomorrow, a humanity
Cultural Flattening
Flat-Earth Theory Proven © 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter as a rough draft on 1/9/2022 I was thinking of Tweeting about my experience with the apparent “flattening” of America that has occurred since I was a five year-old kid in Alabama. My
Culture Clash
Present Culture–Future Shocks © 2022 Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com – Posted in rough-draft to Twitter on 1/8/22 Fair-warning, this’ll be a rather cynical piece. I was thinking this morning, “The world is so screwed up, with so many religions, so many philosophies, so many political parties, so
Real Patriotism
An Important First Step ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on 1/2/2022 Referring to California’s new law tightening up sanctions for misbehaving police officers, I wrote, “This is a step in the right direction, but why should
New Year’s Panacea ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted in rough draft to Twitter on 12/31/2021 #FirstCuppaJoe for the Last Day of 2021 (thread) Here I am, a non-paying rider and a non-paid contributor on a medium I know nothing about—shouting into
Agnosticism
The Christmas Story ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com - Originally posted in rough-draft to Twitter on Dec. 24 2021. #FirstCuppaJoe for Christmas Eve 2021 (thread) I’m agnostic, but I don’t hate Christmas. The Jesus myth is lovely—even though historians say his birthday was shifted
Being the Ricardos
Being the Ricardos Being the Ricardos: Directed by Aaron Sorkin (2021) Review ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com A good movie critique should never come across as “effusively complementary,” so, be forewarned, this one will be a bad critique — by that definition — because “Being the Ricardos” is so
21st Century Dystopia
Apocalypse Now © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com I’ve spent half my life living in, and around, San Francisco. I’ve now been in Modesto, a convenient two hours away, for 50 years. That proximity used to be a huge advantage. Not anymore: Going to the Bay
Democracy
© 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for 12/10 (thread) California, at least at low altitudes and along the coast, has a mild-enough winter climate to support a burgeoning population of homeless. Every city has a “Blue Tarp District.” They can be seen as blue smudges in
Meaning of Christmas
What Was God’s Plan? © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted in rough-draft to Twitter on 12/2/2021 I hauled out the fake Christmas tree and put it together yesterday. We haven’t decorated it yet, but while I sit here in the pre-dawn darkness,