Hello everybody this is the Victor Davis-Hanson show and this is our

Saturday edition and we do something unusual on Saturdays we talk a little bit

about the news stories that we didn't get to in the news

round up and then we go into a literature section so today will be Roman novels

so stay with us for that in the second segment. But first let's listen to these

messages and then come right on back.

Welcome back to the Saturday edition or the weekend edition.

Victor, there's still a lot of news stories we didn't get to on Friday. The first one is there's a new

whistleblower from Boeing and he's saying that they cut corners on that dreamliner. I

think it's the 777. But we've also had a new incident with a Boeing 737

engine shell just unraveling in flight, right? We're exposing the engine underneath it. I was wondering if you had any more reflections

on that dangerous world of airlines.

Yeah, every time that I say something about Boeing or United, I get an angry letter, an angry letter from listeners or readers who suggest that I'm disparaging DEI.

But I think we've had about eight of these now and they seem to be, not all of them,

there was a Southwest airliner that basically this was the one where the

Caline came off. This is the second one they've had then the Alaskan airline but

it seems that Boeing is inordinately represented and the reason it's fair to question whether

DEI has a role in all of this is that you just go to their website or their past websites

and see what they're saying.

And the same thing is true with Meirsk, I think that's how you pronounce it,

the Danish shipping company that was the owner or at least the operator of the huge

container ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which by the way is now

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