Friday, March 12, 2004

Minutes of silence

When 9/11 happened a lot of countries held a few minutes of silence in the memory of the victims. A lot of people criticized that, of course, for a variety of reasons, but I don't think it was stupid and I wish we had a few minutes of silence in the memory of the people killed in Madrid yesterday. I guess I'll just have a few minutes of silence all by myself, although it does not amount to much because I haven't said anything for hours anyway.

I wonder how high a percentage of the population of greater Madrid knows or knew a person who was killed or injured yesterday? I am sure sociologists have some kind of a formula for that but I don't know it.


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