Fall back! Run away!

This weekend will once again spawn thousands of online and offline rants about daylight (what other kind? Moonlight? Starlight?) saving. Even though last year the period been extended in the U.S., we give up the effort once again. No daylight saved. Fall back! Quit!

The effort has a long history, actually first proposed by Ben Franklin. Comments for and against are legion. Some are like the proverbial chief who wryly observed to a farmer that the attempt to save daylight was no more useful than cutting one edge off a blanket and sewing it on the other end. The passionate argue that we should be saving energy, or the world, or the future of our children instead. Others are not so cynical, arguing that DST has many benefits.

And look how seriously the State of Indiana has taken it!

We in the Northwest are so far north that we're used to hibernating from November through March. For us, whatever we give up by reverting to standard time just doesn't matter. It's dark when we roll out of bed, and it's dark when we sit down to supper. Let the wimps of the rest of the country whine all they want. We're tough up here!