Sad news today: "Blast in Cairo tourist area kills 1, injures 17".

It happened on Sunday (a weekday in the Islamic world) at the Khan el-Khalili marketplace, a marketplace that has been around since 1382.

1382. Think about that.

You know, fifty years before the Gutenberg press. A hundred before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Two hundred before Shakespeare started writing. Four hundred before the United States Constitution.

And we were there ten months ago - April 10, 2008.

If this had happened then, we could have been one of those eighteen tourists.

Think about that.