Ok, being a buddhist I must say I find it horrible that nearly 180 people died in a huge train crash in Iran today. However, being a mean old bastard means I also question who the hell would hook up a train filled exclusively with sulphur, gasoline, fertilizer, and cotton? The thing sounds like an attempt to mix a gigantic batch of guncotton ferchrissake!

Seems every two or three months we get a story out of Asia or Arabia about a train stuffed so full of people it's a fleshy playdough factory on wheels rolling over, blowing up, or catching fire. Is there just something in the water of third-world nations that makes train engineers morons?