We had to Spring Forward last weekend, and I’m still crabby.  Now we’re on Daylight Stupid Time.  That’s right, DST – it could be Daylight Stupid Time, couldn’t it?

Does anyone really remember why we change the time?  As I recall, I think it had something to do with children going to or coming from school in the dark.  Don’t people realize that many generations of Americans survived that before someone came up with the idea of playing God with the clocks?

And, if that is the only problem, why don’t we just adjust the school day to avoid that situation??

And, then President Bush decided that we should Spring Forward even sooner than before to save energy.  Ha!  For one thing, it really isn’t even Spring in most places.   So, we should really rename the process to something else.

And, besides that, there’s plenty of evidence that I won’t bore you with here, that proves an earlier changeover does NOTHING to save energy.

What it does do is mess people up.  Our circadian clocks get off kilter.  I never knew I had one of those, and wish I was still pleasantly ignorant of that fact.

And, what happens when your circadian clock gets messed up?  You get crabby.  And, being crabby causes stress.  And, stress causes obesity. 

So, if you see me floating by one day soon with a ground team holding me down with large ropes, you’ll know why.