LOL--Is the following a reflection of how hard taxpayers' WashDC employees are working for their paychecks?:
>REID WILSON, DC blog
--Two years ago, on August 24, 2005, an employee at the Capitol Lounge, an institution just two blocks from the Cannon House Office Building, left a burning cigarette in a garbage can while cleaning up after closing. The cigarette caught fire and damaged much of the building, forcing the bar to close for four months. Hill workers, from interns to members of Congress, were heartbroken. Where would they find half-price pizza on Monday night and ten-cent wings on Tuesdays, all while sitting under display cases of buttons from campaigns dating back 75 years and Nixon for President signs?
Early this morning, Capitol Lounge burned again, this time started, firefighters believe, by a fire in a dumpster behind the building. The blaze comes four months after fires damaged two other beloved Washington institutions, Eastern Market and the historic Georgetown Library.
One only hopes the Lounge returns to business as soon as possible, and that the damage isn't too bad.< |
