Travis wrote:
> From: Travis
> Subject: AL GORE'S BLOG
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> Daylight savings: an extra hour of sunlight or global castastrophe? I was
> sitting on my patio last night, enjoying a mint julep and thinking about
> ways I could make my mansion more energy
> efficient<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_Jr.#Environmental_issues>to
> get the vast right-wing conspiracy off my freaking back, when it hit
> me.
> Here I was, watching the sun set at 8 p.m. because of Daylight Savings Time.
> It was nice -- but it was wrong.
> Who is man and womankind to mess with something as fundamental as time
> itself? By adding an extra hour of daylight every summer, aren't we
> subtracting from the happiness of future generations? I started to feel all
> gloomy, and you know what I do when that happens--I decided to make you feel
> gloomy too.
> Sure, Daylight Savings Time was a good idea back when Ben Franklin was
> cracking jokes about the French sleeping
> late<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings_time>.
> But now that the earth's temperature his risen to the point where a liberal
> arts major like me can win the Nobel Prize--which is actually
> *more*prestigious than being President--Daylight Savings Time has
> become a threat
> to the future of the earth, the planet that made me famous.Think about it.
> An extra hour of sunlight every day during the summer -- when it's already
> "hotter than a bitch wolf in heat" as my pappy would say -- we don't need
> it. We're killing off crops and using extra water to spritz spider plants in
> singles bars. Our wives are dehydrating themseIlves on the StairMaster at
> the health club, then they drink bottled water and forget to recycle in the
> blue plastic bin, not the waste basket. There are so many catastrophic
> consequences of that extra hour of sun, it's making my head spin!
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