Category: D. Allan Kerr
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Don’t Ya Know There’s a War On??
By D. Allan Kerr For all the folks complaining about the freedoms you’re being denied because of this pesky coronavirus pandemic, imagine being told how much gasoline you can put in your tank each week. When you do drive, you’re…
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Thank the Fake News Media for Saving Your Life
By D. Allan Kerr Doctors, nurses and other front line hospital workers will always be remembered as the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as first responders were so honored following the 9/11 attacks. Although Donald Trump and his more…
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Remembering an Unsung Female Hero of the Thresher Disaster
By D. Allan Kerr Liz DesJardins was 31 years old, five months pregnant and the mother of two young girls when two men from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard knocked on her door the morning of 11 April 1963. There in the…
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The Worst of Times, the Best of People
By D. Allan Kerr Just before shutting down due to this coronavirus crisis, Lil’s Café in the Foreside area of Kittery, Maine, put out dozens of free crullers on their outdoor picnic tables for customers. Loco Coco Tacos, before they…
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Political Survival Trumps Integrity
By D. Allan Kerr Senate Republicans got totally played by Nancy Pelosi during this impeachment process, perhaps to a degree even she couldn’t have imagined. There was never a scenario where 67 senators would vote to remove Donald Trump from…
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Warming Up To The Bern
By D. Allan Kerr Damn kids. You try to make a logical, cold-minded decision and then they infuse you with ideology and principle. As I imagine is the case with millions of other families right now, ours is engaged in…
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GOP’s ‘Shut Up And Listen’ Moment In New Hampshire
By D. Allan Kerr New Hampshire primary voters have a history of stubborn, sometimes unexpected independence. Lyndon Johnson learned this in 1968, when a strong showing by insurgent fellow Democrat Eugene McCarthy convinced him to not run for re-election. George…
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Maine’s First Town Has Banner Year
By D. Allan Kerr Please excuse me while I take a moment to brag about my adopted hometown. I have no doubt a lot of folks are justifiably proud of their own community, but check out what happened this year…
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Impeachment Is About 2019, Not 2016
By D. Allan Kerr Donald Trump is a lowlife scumbag. Any illusion to the contrary was shattered last week when he Twittermocked a 16-year-old girl for having Asperger syndrome. But that’s not why he’s being impeached. Trump wants you to…
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How My Humble Home Became A Doggie Ranch
By D. Allan Kerr The problem sometimes with really loving someone is they can manipulate your adoration to get what they want. Which is why we now have seven – yes 7 – dogs living in our house. Not so…
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