  Amy Goodman's urlLink Democracy Now originally brought up the first 9/11 shortly after the 2001 horror, but urlLink today's Guardian also has a nice compilation of stories on the Pinochet overthrow in Chile 30 years ago. In other news, the most amazing government urlLink report I've ever seen came out last week regarding the Space Shuttle Columbia. Already, this week NASA released their public response. Let's review the most important lesson the CAIB imparted: focus on safety over schedule. Still, the plan's focus is what has already been set as a March 11 launch date. I'm not sure they've read the report. The ad team NASA brought on to redo their urlLink website last month was really fantastic. Too bad the team wasn't included in the crafting of the public response. The engineer/scientist over dependence on alliteration once again abounds with the new mantra: Smarter Stronger Safer.
Gag! One more note on NASA: in the afore-blogged lost entries which discussed the NASA report at length, I said if such a report--with its absence of good/evil dichotomies and oversimplified conclusions--were conducted after 9/11, we would not be at war in Iraq right now. I want to again commend the CAIB and apologize for thinking a military-minded board would do a crappy job. 
