Congressman Ed Markey is convinced that the upcoming early start to Daylight Saving Time is the cure for all that ails us:
US Representative Edward J. Markey says he has devised a way to combat crime, economic stagnation, car crashes, and the winter blahs, all while saving energy and costing taxpayers nothing.
Next Sunday , Americans will simply move their clocks ahead one hour, three weeks earlier than normal, under a law Markey pushed through Congress that moves daylight saving time for the first time since 1986.
Markey says his first concern is saving energy. But the congressman, who wakes to an alarm clock at 7 a.m., sounds like a Bible salesman when he talks about the benefits of giving every man, woman, and child an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings.
“Daylight saving time just brings a smile to everybody’s faces,” the Malden Democrat said last week. “When it’s daylight and people are going home at night, they feel better, and as the ad says, that’s priceless; it’s impossible to put a value on it.”
You heard it here first, folks. After March 11th, all our problems will be solved.
March 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I have no doubt that all the northern parents of young children will feel the same way when they send their kids to school in the dark each morning in the Spring. And also when they trick-or-treat after dusk each Halloween.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Ed Markey is an unbelievable jackass. I’ve hit the ‘it just can’t be fixed’ DST clusterfuck. None - and I mean NONE of my self-setting electronics are working right - and, apparently, none of them can be fixed. I hope his district recalls the stupid, useless, bastard.