Please stop talking

Dear Governor Paterson,

While it is admirable that you want to be open with the press - PLEASE stop telling us about all of your transgressions. I live in dread fear of what other disclosures lie ahead. Nose picking? Dirty sock sniffing? Eating cake from the garbage? Who knows? And far more importantly, who cares?

I didn't realize that the Onion had begun posting their stories on youtube:




Here's your Today in History -

Anne Brontë was baptised on March 25, 1820. She and her sisters Charlotte and Emily were avid writers. Women were not supposed to write books at the time because novels were still being written in the formal style, and it was feared that women would corrupt that classic form with their penchant for multiple climaxes. The Brontës therefore wrote under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Charlotte got to be Currer, which made the other girls jealous, because Currer was the handsome and swarthy sailor: Ellis was the stuttering librarian, and Acton was the simpleminded shepherd.



The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 148 garment workers who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City until September 11th, 2001. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers in that industry.




March 25, 1915 -
In 1915, first submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost.




March 25, 1967 -
As part of Operation Green Mist, the U.S. Army detonates explosive warheads containing the deadly sarin nerve agent at Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve on the big island of Hawaii. The open-air tests are kept secret for more than thirty years.

March 25, 1975 -
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew during a reception at Ri'Assa Palace. The errant nephew was executed by beheading.



March 25, 1990 -
An intentionally set fire at the Happy Land Social Club in NYC kills 87 by smoke inhalation.


And so it goes