Ezra's Essays

Category: February 2007

  • A TRIPARTITE PRESIDENCY

    To the readers of the Carr essays, I am pleased to announce that Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank, and your old essayist have declared their intention to run for the first Tripartite Presidency in American history. A tripartite presidency would work like this. Let us say that Barney Frank starts off as President with Charlie Rangel…

  • NEWS FROM TEXAS

    Miriam A. Ferguson was married to the governor of Texas in the early part of the 1920s. Unfortunately, her husband was impeached and lost the governorship. He recommended to his fellow Texans that they should elect his wife. And so it was that Mrs. Ferguson, popularly known as Ma, which represented her first two initials,…