March 17, 2022
People in the northern half of the US could have Daylight Saving Time Year-Round, so they won’t have to live in darkness starting at 4 p.m. in winter.
And maybe the rest of us could start it in April, when moving the clocks ahead wouldn’t mean waking up in the dark after the time change in spring.
Sure,
it’ll be a logistical nightmare. But people gotta have their daylight, right?
March
17, 2022
Dear
Josh Hawley, Steve Manchin, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Friends:
The idea of making Daylight Saving Time year-round is a plot by Democrats to undermine our God-given right to wake up in daylight. They will then use the morning sluggishness it produces in people to practice mind-control and push their Liberal agendas.
I
urge you to fight this attack on our civil liberties.
No Daylight Saving Time mandate!
March
16, 2022
Members
of Congress are trying to sneak a bill past the public that would make Daylight
Saving permanent.
In Boise at least, that would mean that in winter it wouldn’t get light until 9 a.m.
So will
they decide to switch time zones, just to have some prayer of getting morning
daylight at all? Guess I’ll have to wait and see.
March
11, 2022
You
may wonder why, if I get so annoyed with Missouri politics, I stay here.
First,
politics are annoying everywhere. Missouri isn’t the only place with questionable
mentalities running the show. (See the posts on Idaho, if you don’t believe me.)
But
mainly, it’s the climate. Further north is too cold; further south is too hot;
further west is too dry; and further east is too wet.
I’m in the sweet spot. So I’ll just have to try to change things from the inside.
March
11, 2022
Headline
from the March 10, 2022 Post-Dispatch:
If
the proposal passes, people with concealed-carry permits could bring them onto
public transportation.
Well, shucks, guns are already on public transit, so why not let law-abiding citizens have them, too? That way, more people could be caught in the crossfire.
And if you have a valid concealed-carry permit, the proposal says that your church/place of worship couldn’t bar you from bringing the gun into the building.
HAHAHAHA!
This is Missouri. Basically, if you’re breathing, pass a one-hour online
course, and have taken an in-person course that hits gun-safety highlights and
makes you fire 20 rounds reasonably accurately, you can get the permit. I just
looked it up.
March
11, 2022
Headline
from the March 10, 2022 Post-Dispatch:
“Lawmakers
look to give parents more school oversight”. Judging by recent events right
here in Missouri, we can confidently expect to hear that the Earth is flat, the
Christian God is the only one who matters, that science is an elective, and
that literature is dangerous.
Several
years ago, I wrote about the possibility that electronic textbooks could get
hacked. (“Let’s Work Out the Bugs First”, Feb 2, 2012). Now I don’t have to
worry about that. Education is getting hacked already.
March
8, 2020
The
Freedom Convoy is headed to DC to protest COVID-19 mandates.
Don’t
they know that most of the mandates have been lifted?
March 11, 2022
Since
I’ve started working full-time, I have a lot less mental energy to find and
write about absurdities.
Sometimes,
though, they just jump out at me. Read the next couple of posts for some
examples.
(Note:
If you read the blog and don’t get the email updates, posts go in reverse order,
so you’ve probably read them already.)
