Ukraine is on everyone’s mind, and I’ve got nothing to add to the discourse, except Putin bad, Tucker bad, and Ukraine good. So, on to something trivial, which at the moment is all I can wrap my head around.
Yesterday, the Senate voted for something unanimously. That alone should scare the daylights out of anyone, but it wasn’t so bad. The Senate voted to stop making us turn our clocks back and forth twice a year. A great idea, since the time change is a royal pain. But of course, there’s always a fly in the ointment.
Those nasty scientists say that standard time is far healthier for us human beings as it is aligned with our circadian rhythm cycle. So, naturally, the Senate voted to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, in part because it allegedly saves a small amount of energy-this coming from a legislative body that can’t bring itself to address the energy issue in a substantive fashion.
My curmudgeonly beef is with the fact that the sun will not rise in the winter until about 8:30 in the morning, and that’s for us folks that are fairly far to the east in our time zone. By the time you get to places like Ohio you’re probably closer to 9:30, not that I care about Ohio that much since I don’t live there, but I pity the folks who do, except for the Republicans.
Only in America would a legislative body vote to make noon as far from midway between dawn and dusk as possible.
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