Lyon was about to fly a B-17 bomber from Orange County to Washington, D.C.--huh? Is this a rare occurrence nowadays? Not really.

Yeah -- I think there are regularly scheduled B-17 flights to Washington out of John Wayne Airport.

Going a little over the top with this post, aren't we?

There are hardly any flight-worthy B-17 left on the planet, and I have a feeling it's pretty rare when one is flown from OC to DC.

A friend of a friend owns many rare vehicles--airplanes, automobiles, even tanks. Should they get a write-up every time they take a ride on one?

Maybe if he was going to drive his Sherman tank across the country.

There's something different about a plane like a B-17. It's an icon of the air war over Europe. There are maybe 6 to 8 in the world that can fly.

Here we have an OC icon flying a very rare WWII icon across the country. I think that qualifies as worth a news story.

Why are you getting so exercised about this?

You're the one who only comments 'round these parts when something doth offend you. My problem is one of overplaying an advertiser. And you might think Lyon is an OC icon--to me, he's another pedophile protector that so many county conservatives conveniently overlook.

So this really isn't a complaint about covering Lyon's cross-country B-17 flight. You just don;t like Lyons and object to any positive coverage of him whatsoever.

Lyon. General Lyon. Sir. Not Lyons

And when you use a semi-colon instead of an apostrophe, it gives the impression of a period beating down the apostrophe.

A newspaper's coverage ought to be objective, not necessarily positive, and when it concerns a major advertiser the conflict of interest is palpable.

Orange County doesn't like lions. What happened to Lion Country Safari?