8/13/2008

No title this time - update

Today I found out that one girl from an ESN section from Cracow died during the accident. I didnt know the girl personally but people from Cracow have always been close to me...

The media is full of the accident but hardly any of them used this topic in such a manner as the last edition (13 August) of Final Word:

It's been said before, but it's worth repeating. You can't expect excellence from people in times of emergency if it isn't required from them in times of calm. The idea that a train can run at full speed under a bridge that it being repaired is unfathomable, but it happened. Seven people died when the bridge collapsed, and now the blame game has begun. Where to start pointing fingers? At mothers who don't require their little boys to take their plates to the sink after dinner or who allow them to cross the street without looking both ways first? At government officials who, through their own irresponsible behavior, give negative reinforcement to everyone else's screwups? Responsibility for the bridge collapse might in the end be put on ČD, SŽDC, ODS-DSO, B&K or perhaps even GOD, but the real culprits are the many little ways people are encouraged to shirk their everyday, humdrum ligations.

I promise not to send sad and too serious posts in the close future. But you know, everything counts...

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