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I lost an hour last night, sometime between 1:30 and 2:30 AM to be exact. The US government decided Spring should come three weeks early this year, and came it did. But research proves that little energy will actually be saved in the long run, albeit evening joggers might get more of a reprieve. Don't scoff about the prospect of avid sports enthusiasts pushing our clocks forward and never underestimate the correlation between golf and our country's policymakers.

Not to say all of our nation's leaders are the same. During WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt did away with daylight saving time completely and it didn't plunge the country into another Depression, just a whole lot of confusion until roughly the late '60s.

It's not so much that I mind parting with my precious hour of sleep or the internet issues that ensueas a result of the phenomena which no can actually properly label, it's more so that I resent that the whole weekend becomes monopolized with talk of this blessed event. And it doesn't simply stay buried in the weekend. It trumps even the weather as the most popular water cooler Monday morning chat-time fodder.

I doubt Ben Franklin knew the ruckus he was causing way back when while on a trip to France and first conceiving of the idea of daylight saving time. If he imagined that candy lobbyists would push back the end of DST till after Halloween to make an extra buck and in the process help contribute to a future generation of decaying mouths. Or better yet that in 1999, daylight saving time would account for the early self-detonation of suicide bombersin the West Bank and save a busload of passengers.

Hippos like to demarcate their terrority by releasing dung. I guess the US government isn't all that dissimilar. They simply defecate hours instead.

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