(The following was delivered by my uncle Alan Kerr at the service to honour Roger’s life on Thursday 3 November 2011 at 2.30pm at Old St Paul’s in Wellington.) Roger was a country boy. He was a proud fourth generation New Zealander. Our maternal great uncle, James Cross was a pilot on Captain Arthur Wakefield’s […]
Archives for October 2016
Prejudice and paternalism in Seattle
The following is an exchange on a community discussion board that I had this week with my neighbors about a “Day of Solidarity” that took place in public schools. I’ve changed the names of my neighbors and edited some of what I and they wrote for the sake of brevity. To me some of the […]
America is Not Great: A Rebuttal
The opening sequence from the first season of Aaron Sorkin’s short-lived HBO show ‘The Newsroom’ still seems to make the rounds on social media. It’s the sort of stuff enjoyed by self-loathing Americans or foreigners with an acute case of tall-poppy syndrome. The series garnered mixed reviews, with Jeff Daniels playing the lead character of […]