Can Anyone Really ‘Save’ Daylight?
Are we abandoning the body’s natural clock or making a humane choice?
I woke up (barely) Monday to learn that my fair state’s Senator, the ridiculous Marco Rubio, was up on his high horse about Daylight Saving Time. Again.
Rubio first passed this bill in Florida’s legislature back in 2018, but that meant nothing since Federal passage had to happen first. Did somebody not read the instruction manual?
Then suddenly, by lunchtime Tuesday, the deal was done.
There was some confusion. Okay, maybe it was just me. Because I am still tired. But at first I thought this meant the time we would be doing away with was the “fake” time—Daylight Saving.
Nope. We are staying on the fake time.
Despite demonstrated increases in car accidents (especially involving children), workplace accidents, and energy consumption, support for the so-called Sunshine Protection Act was unanimous.
You know who else was big on Daylight Saving? VEEP’s Jonah Ryan, widely-known as an imbecile.
If memory serves, the lad was perpetually confused about which time was on the chopping block, something I found hilarious until I realized I’d made the same mistake this week.
VEEP showrunner David Manel posted a letter from Ryan on Twitter, praising the change along with Florida’s anti-vax efforts and their latest “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The letter ends with, “Now I have been proven right yet again.”
Exactly.
