Well, this book, which contends that the Noah's Ark/Flood Mythologies of the world are based on a real flooding of the Black Sea, dispersing a sizable number of immigrants, is pretty nice. There's no doubt left that the Black Sea was once a freshwater lake some 300 feet below sea level, and was then inundated with a direct connection to the rest of the world's oceans. No doubt about that at all.

What bums me out is that it was written by a couple of oceanographers, which means that the case for the connection between the flood and the world's flood myths is lacking a full account. When you consider how many cultures have a story about a flood, yeah, the Black Sea seems to be the only candidate, but I think there needs to be a follow up book written by an Anthropologist/Theologian/Archeologist. Somebody that takes for granted the factual history of the Black Sea going from freshwater lake to salt water sea, and uses that to thoroughly analyze the connection between that event and prehistoric migrations and written flood myths.

Makes a good case though.

I'm reading this book, How Israel Was Won, and I'm getting this very odd feeling that it's biased against the Israeli's. By way of word choice and the exclusion or inclusion of certain information that's either damaging to Israel or the Palestinians, it just seems like it's slanting the board. I finally read one paragraph that's so completely missing an obvious half of the story that I check out reviews and lo and behold, the critics agree that it's a piece of propaganda with an unbalanced view.

I just enjoyed the fact that I smelled bull, and found out that that's exactly what it was. Take THAT biased media outlets!