Ever since his bout with brain cancer last year, S.C. political consultant Rod Shealy is a changed man.
Even the days are longer … and he seems determined to make the most of them, and help others do the same.
In fact, Shealy wants all of us to know that the hour of sleep we lost last night (daylight savings time, remember?) is really a free hour tacked on to the end of each workday.
From Shealy’s blog, Doing The First Amendment:
After our bodies get over the shock of losing an hour of sleep on Saturday night – which, in my case, will probably take about a month of daily half-hour naps – we will be rewarded with an extra hour of daylight every afternoon until November. An extra hour!
In reality, it’s not an extra hour, because you cannot create time – not even Congress, which authored the current DST hoax – but it does SEEM to be an extra hour!
What it is, in reality, is an extra USEABLE hour each day … useable because it’s tacked on to the end of the workday.
So, for all practical purposes, we all get an extra hour per day to use as we see fit.
Rod will probably spend his extra hour working to elect candidates that will keep South Carolina stuck in the dark ages, but hey … we all gotta make a living, right?
At least he’s not Warren Tompkins …
By Recovering Lobbyist March 8, 2009 at 10:37 am
Daylight savings is supposed to result in energy savings; that was its primary purpose. Congress lengthened DST by two weeks at each end because Congress wanted to look green, and Al Gore and his buddies egged them into it. And yet a study conducted in Indiana, which just implemented DST for the first time a few years ago, found that DST caused a 7 percent increase in energy consumption in that state. Our biggest problem in this country is an activist government. Too many people think that Congress needs to solve all these problems we have. Most of the problems they solve never existed in the first place. The problem we most need to solve is the big government problem.
By jan blotchsky March 8, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Amen to that!
By Bubba March 9, 2009 at 3:17 pm
a pox on daylight savings time….