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THE SUPREME NITWIT
If any of my Republican friends desired to cast a ballot in the 2012 Presidential election in favor of Mark Sanford, I suspect that they will be sorely disappointed. As we now know, Mark Sanford is the governor of the great state of South Carolina who abandoned his duty to go court his girlfriend who…
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THANK YOU, BERNIE MADOFF
This morning when Bernie Madoff was sentenced (June 29), he was given a term of 150 years. He is now 71 years of age and I doubt that he will live to see the end of his term. There are no two ways about it. Bernie Madoff was a disaster for many American investors and…
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GRIM NEWS ABOUNDS
This is only the third day of June, 2009 but we have had enough bad news to last a lifetime. On Monday of this week, General Motors filed for bankruptcy. At about the same time, Air France lost one of its airbuses on a trip from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Both of these events…
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A THOUGHT OR TWO ABOUT “THE GIFT OF CHASTITY”
There are two or three thoughts that must be established before we proceed into this essay. The first has to do with vows that Catholic priests embrace, saying that they will live a life of poverty, obedience, and chastity. Secondly, your old essayist has never claimed to lead a life based on these three concepts. …
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“…REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE”
Tom Harkin is the junior senator from the state of Iowa. Harkin is a well-regarded fellow and has had presidential ambitions. Unfortunately those ambitions never got past the primary vote in the state of Iowa. But be that as it may, Harkin has an idea worth considering. The idea has to do with naming a…
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ON BEING SCARED SPITLESS AND/OR THE BIG GUY SYNDROME
Since the Bushies have departed the political scene in Washington, we find that many of them are emerging from their burrows and holes in the ground to tell us that following the events of September 11, 2001, we were all scared spitless. I have a clear recollection of my thoughts after the destruction of the…
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LIPSTICK FOR PIGS
Logic has taken one brutal beating recently from Condoleezza Rice and from our former Vice President, Mr. Cheney. For example, this past week, which was the last week in April, Madame Rice, addressing a group of Stanford University Students, was asked about waterboarding. She provided an answer that was convoluted as well as full of…
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ANCIENT HISTORY
You may recall that in the late summer of 2008, the American stock market as well as the American banking system took a terrible nose dive. From that time forward, there have been legions of analyses by learned scholars who hoped to tell you what was wrong. As always, there were political arguments. The Republicans,…
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SEX, SEX AND MORE SEX
It may seem unseemly for a man of my advanced years to write an essay about sexual matters. On the other hand, it also seems to me that I had no choice in the matter. If my mother were to reprimand me for having thoughts about ungodly matters, I would be forced to tell her,…
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A TREATISE ON BEING ELEGANTLY, ENORMOUSLY, AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY SCREWED
A casual observer reading only the title of this essay might conclude that the essay has to do with relations between the sexes. Anyone who knows the proprietor of Ezra’s essays with his seminarian background would dismiss that thought out of hand. But upon further consideration, this essay has to do with diddling. I do…