The sad truth is, not everyone out in the blogsphere has your best interests at heart. The hazards of life as a blogger when people don’t necessarily agree with your work was experienced first-hand by Betsy Newmark (of Betsy’s Page) and Viking Pundit, among others earlier this week. Turns out between Blogger (a widely-used weblog hosting provider much like Goodboys Nation weblog’s Blogs About Hosting, but A LOT bigger) and Google, their blogs were somehow mysteriously wiped out (in Betsy’s case, her site hijacked and resurrected by some perpetrator named “Sam”) and unavailable for a couple of days.

Fortunately, bloggers like Michelle Malkin (whose own site has been subject to numerous hacking attempts in recent weeks by those unhappy with her willingness to publish the controversial Danish/Islam cartoons), and Polipundit’s Laurie Byrd helped get the word about about their woes. Now that everything and everyone is back, happy, and blogging again, Betsy recounts her tale of woe and the long, strange trip back from blog wilderness. Welcome back, Betsy – glad to have you back.

(BTW, this is a good time to say “thank you” once again to Blogs About Hosting, the host provider for the Goodboys Nation weblog. The services they provide, which include not just weblog hosting but website development as well, have come exactly as advertised. If any of you out there have thought about doing some blogging on your own, The Great White Shank would enthusiastically recommend you consider their services.)

Today I’m off to Vegas for a summit meeting with fellow Goodboy The Funny Guy. It won’t be exactly Reagan and Gorbachev in Iceland, but it will provide me an opportunity to get straight from “the horses mouth” the “whazzup” re: this year’s Goodboys Invitational golf tournament. Can a cocktail or two at the Mirage’s Kokomo Bar be out of the question? I sure hope not. Blog ya then…