If you have no idea what I'm about to write on, then you are more out of touch then even I am, and that's saying something. On June 7th, 2005, London was blighted, by the worst attack on it's very streets since World War II. 37 people were killed, and at least 700 wounded when four bombs in various subway carriages, and bus trolleys went off near simultaneously. The resulting explosions, at first thought to be a massive gas leaks, wrecked havoc on the London mass transit system. Not to long afterward, a little known Jihadist website Al-Qal'ah, made a claim to this atrocity and further warned all those who support the Iraq invansion are under threat now to, unless they pull their troops out, to paraphrase.
Being one least likely to jump on a global bandwagon, I debated briefly, whether to post a story about this at all. But then while reading BoingBoing, and RangelMD, I was struck with the above quote. The quote itself is a slight ripoff of something that was said after the Trade Center attack in New York, but in itself, is truth. When tragedy strikes, often as not, human beings find themselves even at incredible divide, suddenly united under one roof. They are reminded, ever so briefly, that all people, no matter their stature, no matter their wealth, race, descent, sex, or religion, can be killed by the slightest of whims, of people who really have no concern for life, no matter what their rhetoric.
And for the briefest of instances, we realize that this is one world, warts and all.