Archive for November 2025
God and man at Lambeau Field
by David Benjamin “It’s all God’s timing, man … It was God trying to tell me to help my foot out a little bit.” —Jayden Reed, injured Green Bay Packer MADISON, Wis.—Katy, one of my coffee-shop friends, looked a little strange. She was wearing mostly men’s clothes as usual and pushing the walker she’s been…
Read MoreThe chicken hawk next door
by David Benjamin “The only thing these emails prove is that President Trump did nothing wrong. If anything, his crime was loving too much. And possibly too young.” —Ashley Padilla, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on “Saturday Night Live” MADISON, Wis.—One of the thousand rules drummed at me by parents, grandparents, teachers and…
Read MoreThe invasion of the Feature Creep
by David Benjamin “To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” —Henri Cartier-Bresson MADISON, Wis.—There’s a story, probably apocryphal, about Henry Aaron, the greatest hitter of all time and my childhood baseball…
Read MoreHell in Paradise! Flipper Murdered!
by David Benjamin “All creatures kill—there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge. Also—in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.”…
Read MoreCharlie Brown goes to Paris
by David Benjamin “I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though — those’ll fool ’em.” ― Doug Mack PARIS—Hotlips has asked why I bother to compose formularies for American tourists in Paris who might—if offered the right advice—prefer not to…
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