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YANECONE, YADAMIEC, BLAUSTEIN AND MULDOWNEY
An outsider not familiar with Ezra’s Essays might have read the title of this essay and believed it referred to an international law firm. That is not the case. The title reflects the fact that this is a country of immigrants. At the moment none of my readers are native Americans such as Cherokee, Iroquois,…
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RIGHT AWAY – LOOKING FORWARD
Like most Americans, I have followed events in Washington, which are a form of theater. Granted that it is a deadly theater, it is theater nonetheless. When members of this Democratic administration try to explain what is being done, they overwork the words “looking forward.” A few weeks earlier, they overworked the word “transparency.” Robert…
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PATTING ONE’S BACKS
From time to time there comes a moment when we can make someone else’s life a little bit more enjoyable. Two Costa Rican immigrants have made several appearances in these essays. They are Jenny M and Ronald H. They are married, but in conformance with Costa Rican custom, Jenny retains her maiden name.There are three…
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MAKING PROGRESS
Let us assume that I am an historian and that the date is in the year of 2510. If my arithmetic is correct, that would be about 500 years from now. I believe it would be fair to say that such an historian might conclude that the times in which we are currently living were…
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D.A.D.T. – R.I.P. ~~
In the year 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry published some rules concerning the sport of boxing. I am told that the fellow who has the title of marquess ranks below a duke and above an earl in the British peerage. The rules contained the essentials of good sportsmanship. There was to be no hitting when…
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ASKING AND TELLING
I have no intention of misleading the readers of Ezra’s Essays into believing that this essay has anything to do with the current law that forbids members of the military services from disclosing their sexual preferences. Quite to the contrary, this essay has to do with Miss Chicka, my wife, and with blindness. Apparently…
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AMERICAN MILITARY MUSIC
In 1970, a book written by Robert Sherrill was published with the title, “Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music.” More than anything else, Robert Sherrill had few things complimentary about justice in the American military system. As a matter of fact, he excoriated what is called the justice system in…