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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

I feel that it is my general desire to believe in the best in people that makes me wish this was a satirical letter to the editor, however I suspect that Ms. Meskimen is stone-cold serious. Last week, she wrote that “Daylight Savings Time started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they?” Perhaps Congress has assumed more authority than the Constitution provides for them, if they are changing the amount of daylight on the U.S. The letter’s author continues “Perhaps this is another ploy by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat.” Actually, varying DST appeared to have a negligible effect on the country’s power usage. No word on the number of hours of daylight, as apparently we were all too hot to notice. (via BoingBoing) [0 # ]
Sorry things have been kind of quiet here for a few days. I am currently under a thick fog of antihistamines and decongestants as a result of Richmond’s annual Spring pollen onslaught (I never had allergy problems before moving here, but this annual yellow blanket of snow is just unbelievable). I’ll get my head out of the fog in a couple of days or so. In the meantime, please check out my del.icio.us feeds (both links and news); or simply watch the new Harry Potter & TOTP trailer over and over and over… [0 # ]