Good & Bad

Yikes, three days with no post. Not as though anyone has likely found this little section of the internet yet, but who knows?

Still, I should keep up with the posts. Do you know that the average blog has a life-span of approximately 6 months? Read it in an old study, though that might have changed recently. Seems to be a lot more dead sites out there. That and a lot of blogs seem to be "slowing down", as it were. Especially the news & politics blogs, a lot of the ones I go to have either...
A) Authors slowing down due to crushing dispair, or,
B) Authors slowing down because blogging about worldly affairs interacts negatively with their blood pressure medication.

Actually, now that I think about it, I haven't actually posted an "opinion" piece yet. The Portland post wasn't a opinion piece as its a fact that Portland is a glorified hole in the ground. But nothing yet where I have publicly analyzed an event based off of information that may or may not be accurate. Let's do that today. Both links are courtesy of the Drudge Report. Yes I actually have read the articles before posting them, I don't post headlines. I *do* have a little time in the day.

Story #1 (the good news): Archaeologists to raise ancient Egyptian ship
Drudge cycled this story off his page just before I posted it, but it was on there. Anyway, this is actually a pretty cool story, as its not every day you find an ancient Egyptian boat lying around, much less one owned by a Pharaoh. I don't think that this will boost tourism to Egypt a whole lot, as the country's social and economic problems have escalated since Mubarak was kicked out of the big seat. But from a historical (and a historical engineering) standpoint, this is a magnificent find.

Story #2 (the bad news): No Bibles or Jews on DELTA flights to Saudi Arabia
Actually this is NOT the story Drudge linked to. Apparently USA Today messed around with the story just a few minutes ago, replacing the original article with a bunch of "xxx"'s. Most strange. That said, the linked OpEd (also on USA Today's site) has the gist of the article down.

In any event, I will definitely will try and avoid flying on DELTA from now on if at all practicable. DELTA sucks anyway. Most people would be better served by practically any other airline. Even ValuJet. And yes, ValuJet still exists...but it's hiding. It seems to have gotten a bit better over the years, they don't crash very often anymore.

I seem to have gotten a bit off subject. Oh well.