Hate to announce it, but daylight time begins this weekend. It may have been a good idea when 90% of us lived on farms. We could drink lemonade on the porch in the early evening instead of being awakened by broad daylight at 5 AM. But now it mostly means that the 95% of us who do not live on farms must begin our days in darkness until May. This practice makes sense only to those who authorized it, the group Mark Twain called our only native criminal class, Congress. The Constitution spells out the qualifications for Congress, and intelligence is not mentioned. When the present DST bill was debated, one member worried that extending daylight time would cost businesses money via additional sun damage to drapes and carpets. Arizona has produced some laughingstocks, it is true, notably former governor Evan Mecham thirty years ago. But it has also produced Barry Goldwater, John McCain, and a consistent opposition to the asinine practice known as Daylight Savings Time.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 05:27:03 +0000
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