Reply #62: So, Did You All "Spring Forward?" SNARL!!

[Demeter]

I loathe DST because Michigan is already always on DST, thanks to clocking itself on Eastern time instead of Central. But for 8 months of the year, Michigan is on Double Daylight Savings Time. Not only does the body protest, but it turns out that there is no documented "energy savings" associated with this annual torture of the circadian rhythm. In fact, the only value DST has is to encourage people to go shopping after work! Especially for gardening supplies and golf equipment, according to NPR.

The birds are singing like it's spring, though. Our resident swans are back, huddled in the weeds next to the frozen pond. The ice has barely started to rot, let alone melt. Don't know what the foolish birds are doing back so early. Maybe it's too hot wherever they went for the winter, but there's nothing to eat and nothing to do here. It's hardly nest-building weather!

Friday was a beautiful day. We hit a record high of 68F, one degree higher than 1973. But since then it's been cold, rainy, gray, windy; perfect pneumonia weather.


And the economy is similar. The reports, speculations, predictions, aside from the occasional joker, are uniformly cold,gray, wet and windy. Wear your foul-weather gear!

So sail on, little ship of state! Be valiant, Americans! Get a clue, Mr. President. Hire a real economist, not a Goldman Stooge or a Rubin clone or a Chicago charlatan.


Keep posting! I'll be back! (At least, I Hope to add a bit more this evening). The inbox is filling up again. If it weren't so depressing, I'd clear it all out. Just reading through this stuff takes its toll.