Ezra's Essays

Category: Current Event

  • “AIN’T NOTHIN’ YOU CAN DO” — GUY CLARK, SONGWRITER

    For the past three weeks, a drought has descended upon my being which renders me largely incompetent to write essays.  I trust that the drought is not a permanent condition but is a transient affair.  In the long time that I have been writing essays, droughts have appeared from time to time.  The title of…

  • GRUBER’S LAW

    I suspect that by this time every American must have an idea of the enormity of the oil spill that is taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.  The spill is of such proportions that we should consider it before long a cataclysmic event. All of which brings me to “Gruber’s Law” that I would…

  • THE ONE-HOLER JUBILEE

    In the summer of 1969, I was working as a lobbyist for the AT&T Corporation in Washington.  Ordinarily such work is limited to three years and I had been there on the order of three and a half years.  So I was not surprised when the instructions from New York were that I should return…

  • “I AM NOT A PERFECT MAN”

    “I AM NOT A PERFECT MAN” BISHOP EDDIE LONG PASTOR OF THE NEW BIRTH MEGA-CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA SEPTEMBER 26, 2010     I do not pretend to be a historian of the relationship between the Church and the affairs of man.  But in my lifetime there have been three or four occasions when the proclivity…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN’S DIVORCE

    Vladimir Putin, the head man in Russia, took his wife out to attend a ballet performance.  At the intermission, he was asked by a reporter, first, how he enjoyed the ballet and, secondly, if he was going to become divorced soon.  In a display of modesty for Vladimir Putin, he announced that he was indeed…

  • BITS AND PIECES; ODDS AND ENDS

    On my desk I have a tape recorder into which I dictate notes about future essays.  It is an audible tape recorder in view of the fact that I can no longer see to write and writing is incomprehensible to me.  After I have dictated a series of comments into my notepad, I usually publish…

  • I’M STILL GORGEOUS INSIDE

    If you are a close follower of the essays that come from this desk, you may recall an essay done last spring.  It was called “I’m Gorgeous Inside.”  It had to do with a for-sale sign on the house immediately adjacent to this one which had an appendage to the for-sale sign which said, “I’m…

  • “I’M GORGEOUS INSIDE” -Ellen Konik

    My wife comes from the fabulously wealthy town of Lycippus, Pennsylvania.  I believe that she owns a controlling interest in that town and the surrounding territories.  While I have known Miss Chicka for a number of years, she has never mentioned that she ever served in the American military.  Those of you who have served…