Izzy Do We Have Any Trojans?

Author Phil Freedman offers a humorous collection of 'wit and wisdom from his local newspaper column <I>WHATEVER</I>. Freedman published <I>WHATEVER</I> in a local paper in Aspen Colorado until his editor fired him for anti-semantic (please read the preceding word carefully) reasons. He subsequently published <I>WHATEVER</I> for three years on a weekly Web site. <I>Izzy Do We Have Any Trojans?</I> is a compendium of the best of those columns.</p><p>Freedman is no James Thurber but neither is Dave Barry. In fact his readers have favorably compared Freedman with Barry but his style is more thought provoking and reflects his academic background.</p><p>He uses sarcasm irony (both steam and dry) wit (and without) cynicism mysticism insane-icism mixed metaphor oxymorons regular morons pun parody parable alliteration and even misquotes. When the situation invites he enjoys playing with phonynyms. <I>Phonynym</I> as you may have guessed is a term for made-up words that don't exist. But don't look it up. <I>Phonynym</I> is a phonynym. His readers have referred to him as a 'word crafter. Others as a 'word crap-per.</p>