Friday Morning Word Salad

From the Trump rally in Doral earlier this week is this rib-tickling howler.

Video is embedded (below) but for your reading pleasure here's the transcript:

We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more.  Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosp-lee. 

And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly, dying in their arms, screaming "What can I do?  What can I do?  Help me God, what can I do?"

We are a nation of whose once-revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess.  You sit and wait for hours and are notified that the plane won't leave.  That they have no idea when they will.  Where ticket prices have tripled.  They don't have the pilots to fly the planes.  They don't seek qualified air traffic controllers.  And they just don't know what the hell they are doing.

Absolutely fascinating.  

Donald Trump rolls seamlessly from death penalty for drug dealers to his wet dream about airports that is pure fantasy.

Biden may be demented.

Trump is wacko.

You cannot possibly make-up nonsense like this.

Glad to be a Double Hater.  A Golden Age to be alive.....

The Madness of Resetting Clocks

Yup - it’s that time of year when we make the switch between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time. 

The jury is still out as to whether or not this is an antiquated and grand inconvenience or sensible change of the clocks.  What we know for sure is that beginning tomorrow the return of Standard Time means an extra hour of sleep.  The sun will rise earlier - which is great if you rise early.  However, if you’re like this retired guy I’d prefer to see the sun a bit longer at the end of the day.  

So the operative questions are:

• Do we permanently switch to Daylight Saving Time?  
• Switch to Standard Time altogether? 
• Or continue with the madness of resetting clocks twice a year?

Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington professor of law, has studied this subject at length.  He has concluded that among other things, we need to abandon the concept of Standard Time inasmuch as early evening darkness is associated with more crime and automobile accidents when contrasted with early morning darkness.

Corporate America concurs.  With more daylight at the end of the day consumers stay out longer spending their money.  And if you like to squeeze-in a late season round of golf you understand the logic.

There is also the mental health angle as well.  Research has suggested that the switch to Standard Time is correlated with depression - a change not associated with the Spring Forward switch.  

Sure, Standard Time is old school and likely more in-sync with our prehistoric hunter-gatherer circadian rhythms - all hard-wired into our DNA for millennia and long before we had time-keeping devices and a Chamber of Commerce.

Nevertheless, this retired guy would enjoy more sunlight during his active time of day.  Opinions are a dime a dozen.

No matter how you slice it the sunshine pie in a given day is always finite.  It's all about being a slave to clocks.  

Before we had time-keeping devices none of this was a problem.

It's madness.....

The Madness of Resetting Clocks

Yup - it’s that time of year when we make the switch between Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time. 

The jury is still out as to whether or not this is an antiquated and grand inconvenience or sensible change of the clocks.  What we know for sure is that beginning tomorrow the return of Standard Time means an extra hour of sleep.  The sun will rise earlier - which is great if you rise early.  However, if you’re like this retired guy I’d prefer to see the sun a bit longer at the end of the day.  

So the operative questions are:

1.  Do we permanently switch to Daylight Saving Time?

2.  Switch to Standard Time altogether?

3.  Or continue with the madness of resetting clocks twice a year?

Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington professor of law, has studied this subject at length.  He has concluded that among other things, we need to abandon the concept of Standard Time inasmuch as early evening darkness is associated with more crime and automobile accidents when contrasted with early morning darkness.

Corporate America concurs.  With more daylight at the end of the day consumers stay out longer spending their money.  And if you like to squeeze-in a late season round of golf you understand the logic.

There is also the mental health angle as well.  Research has suggested that the switch to Standard Time is correlated with depression - a change not associated with the Spring Forward switch.  

Sure, Standard Time is old school and likely more in-sync with our prehistoric hunter-gatherer circadian rhythms - all hard-wired into our DNA for millennia and long before we had time-keeping devices and a Chamber of Commerce.

Nevertheless, this retired guy prefers to sleep-in a bit and would enjoy more sunlight during his active time of day.  Opinions are a dime a dozen.

No matter how you slice it the sunshine pie in a given day is always finite.  It's all about being a slave to clocks.  

Before we had time-keeping devices none of this was a problem.

It's madness.....