Jet lag without leaving home

The strange thing is, nobody has *ever*, as far as I know, offered a
defense of Devil Satan Time, yet it has been adopted all over the
world.

Ask a DST proponent why he likes it and he'll give an enthusiastic
rendition of "early to bed and early to rise/makes a man healthy,
wealthy, and wise" with many, many corroborating details -- but he'll
studiously avoid explaining why longer and longer periods of DST are
progressive and with it, but year-round DST  just won't do.

A few play the "Gee, ma, all the other kids are doon' it" card, which
hits the table with a snigger-worthy lack of snap in Indiana, where
the only way to come reasonably close to doing what all the other kids
are doing is to match Illinois half the year and Ohio half the year --
which Indiana did for thirty years.  And they never explain why all
the other kids are doing it.

But I take back all the nasty things I've said about Benjamin
Franklin. While poking around the Web one day, I came across his
original proposal -- and it was clearly and obviously meant as a
*joke* -- something too absurd to ever implement.

Joy Beeson
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