soreff comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong
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Or that the interval between X and Y is spacelike, and neither is in the other's forward light cone... :)
Some day the light speed delay might become an issue in historical investigations, but not quite yet :) Even then in the statement "if you claim that X caused Y, the minimum you need to know is that X came before Y, not afterwards" the term "before" implies that one event is in the causal future of the other.