La La Bamba

This week marks the second anniversary of the Continental 3407 crash.   In this era when everyone goes  bat S crazy over the failure to torture any dark skinned male over the fear that his fourth cousin might try to take down a plane with exploding gonads I am amazed that folks are unwilling to stand up to corporate greed and insist on a few simple measures that would actually save lives in the skies; more air traffic controllers, increasing the amount of flight hours experience before one can fly a commercial aircraft, tighter enforcement of crew rest rules to name a few.  


Right now the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has a list of 500 recommendations for improving airline safety. Some of the NTSB's recommendations are 20 years old.  In a week where we have learned that safe reliable Toyotas might not be safe nor reliable and that corn based sugar infects nearly everything we eat, that America would wise up and take on the low hanging fruit that would help our people live longer and happier lives.  Sadly we seem to be too drunk on tea to really notice or care.