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Why can't Salon give Mark Benjamin--a superbly gifted writer--a decent topic to write about?
Come on! The "kitschy artifacts being dumped and forgotten on gravesites expose" has been done to death. Benjamin probably had to churn this out hammered on Svedka and Kool-Aid.
What's next? Wasting his genius on "Six-hundred pound man trapped in own bedroom" filler?
Puhleeze, Salon: Harness his literary Scotch boiler!