Dear friends,
My desk sits about 10 feet from the entrance to our lunchroom (which is actually called our "cybercafe"
. At any given time, the tv is tuned to CNN, MSNBC or Fox, which means that I've spent the morning listening to a) breathless news of a certain custody battle between a certain woman's husband and a certain woman's parents, with certain presidents and governors and Congresscritters muscling their way in for camera time; b) breathless news of a certain pop star's trial on certain charges involving certain youngsters. I'm sure that I should be paying better attention to all of this news than I am, but I am hoping that somebody, at least one of the local news stations, finds time to squeeze the following into the news cycle:
The Triangle Waist Company factory fire, which took 146 lives on March 25, 1911.
The Happy Land Social Club fire, which took 87 lives on March 25, 1990.