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,
Evolution of Historucal Knowledge
History: Written in, But Not Set in Stone. ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter in rough-draft 11/29/2021 Today’s “#FirstCuppaJoe” column on Twitter, spell-checked and spiffed up: #FirstCuppaJoe for 11/29 (thread) This morning’s meditations are inspired by my current reading
Poetry
It Ain’t Poetry © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Posted to Twitter in rough-draft on 11/28/2021 I write a daily “column” on twitter under the hashtag “#FirstCuppaJoe”. These are a report on my caffein-aided meditations each morning. What you might find each day is kind
Agnosticism
More on The God-shaped Hole © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/22/2021 The little two-paragraph blog post, below, has gotten a bit of response. In it, I propose a possible “earthly” explanation for people’s longing for contact
The World Through Blinders © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – originally posted to Twitter as rough-draft on 11/20/2021 Judging by the news that we are “allowed” to see by Mainstream Media and the Internet-feeds, like Apple & Google, the world seems to be slipping into an
Agnosticism
That God-shaped Hole © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted to Twitter as a rough draft on 11/18/2021 During my 20-year journey, from atheism to #Religiosity, with a jail-break to agnosticism, the church said, “There’s a God-shaped hole in everyone that’s yearning to
Humanity
American Police Racism © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMileKerr.com – Posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/17/2021 I seriously doubt that “racism” in America is REALLY about skin pigmentation. I’ve worked with people from India who are every bit as dark-complected as any American Black
The Zen of the Commute Or How to Survive the Commute, and Life’s Frustrations Too ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com I live in Modesto, California, a decent community of 200,000 with a hell-acious hot summer, a gloomy, moldy, London-like winter and a pretty nice spring and
Absentee Parenting
More on Juvenile Gangs © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Originally posted as a rough-draft to Twitter on 11/15/21 #JuvenileGangs (thread) I think maybe the tweet, below. garnered the highest number of likes and re-tweets of any so far. But my followers comments about it got
Bacchanalia
The Air Up There © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Origianlly posted as a first draft to Twitter (@kerr_vernon) on 11/12/2021 Until this morning, I hadn’t read the “About” blurb on my blog in years. In it, I tell about my favorite subject matter,
Good vs. Evil
Good vs. Evil ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Are Good and Evil relative? Liberal scholars would have you think so. So much “liberal” thinking down through the ages has amounted to persons who have been accorded some level of scholarly authority justifying their own moral shortcomings by