Vindication

Here I thought I was a lone voice in the wilderness, a half-crazed prophet facing the icy gales decrying the early advent of daylight saving time which is around 4 weeks early this year speciously advocated by the forces of darkness as an energy saving chronometrical shift.

But now it seems my lone crusade is picking up some traction among the academic press. No less than the prestigious LiveScience.com web site has taken up the cause in an article today pointing out, unsurprisingly, that by pushing the population another month back into winter lighting that it will prolong depression from those suffering from seasonal affective disorder (with its appropriate acronym SAD).

This is an initiative of the Bush administration, which the sycophantic Conservative Party of Canada has enacted without so much as a debate in our Parliament. It seems that George W. was not content merely depressing the public with his stance on the environment, economy, health, education and international affairs: he now intends to render us totally manic.

So, kind readers, we now have only 3 days or so left until are forced, once again, to wake up in the dark, cold and shivering. I propose a total boycott of DST until 2:00 AM on Sunday, April 1 as God himself intended.

Are you with me?