A polymath as well as novelist and journalist, David Benjamin, in his
weekly screeds, has ranged across subjects from sports to technology, to
movies and memories,, from Paris to Tokyo to Wisconsin and beyond. This
sampling of Benjamin's humor and imagination hearkens to the most esteemed
forebears of the art of 1,000 fearful words, from Hazlitt to Twain to
Russell Baker and Gail Collins.