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LEVI AND K-ROD
The dramatis personae of the following essay will cause historians to rate it as a tour de force or as a complete omnibus essay. The dramatis personae include Levi Johnston, the Wasilla, Alaska stud who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter, and Sarah Palin’s husband who claims Eskimo ancestry in his parentage. Moving in a southward direction,…
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MORE OF BITS AND PIECES, AND ODDS AND ENDS
You will recall – or I hope you will recall – that these are bits that come from my notepad and that there is no connection from one subject to another. So we continue with the spirit of bits and pieces, odds and ends. The first thought has to do with the cicadas. It might…
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HE ALWAYS SHOOK MY HAND
Eric Bogle is a prolific songwriter who started his life in Scotland in a town called Peebles. At age 25, he took off for Australia and has long since become a citizen there. Bogle composed a song which is really a poem to recognize the existence of a love affair wherein the husband eventually died. …
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LADIES’ CHATTERINGS
This essay purports to comment on the conduct of females in restaurants which has come to be disturbing in some cases. Before I am accused of bias against females, I would cite at least two points in my defense. Those of you who have read Ezra’s Essays over the years know that I am a…
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SPEAKING UP
Those of you who have come to know me in the past 60 years are probably aware that I harbor certain prejudices. I see nothing to praise, for example, about the New York Yankees, particularly when they are under the direction of George Steinbrenner. On the other side of the coin, it has always struck…
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HE/SHE/THEY SAID THAT?! Volume III
Volume III When I set out to write this essay, I thought my recollections could be contained in an essay of maybe six or eight pages. But as it has turned out, my recollections have now reached a total of three volumes. I believe that I have spent as much time as I wish to…
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CERUMEN
This essay should properly be called, because of its shortness, an essayette. Cerumen is a reasonably important health problem and I would not want the shortness of this essay to detract from its importance. If the truth were known, it would disclose that the proprietor of Ezra’s Essays is now prepared to throw its readers…
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BASTARDS LIKE ME
I guess that I am finally cornered. I will have to admit that I am a Democrat and that I subscribe to the liberal wing of that party. Today that is called the progressive part of the Democratic Party. But as I progress into my 88th year, and this is being dictated on the Christian…
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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…