This is a typical example of leadership by symbolism. Instead of real reform to promote racial and social equality we give a national holiday to Martin Luther King. Instead of real drug education that educates people on responsible drug use, we add mandatory sentencing to addicts who sell arbitrarily banned drugs to bankroll their addiction to drugs that are way overpriced due to drug laws and the resultant profiteering.
Instead of reexamination of our foreign policy we enact the Patriot Act - to respond to the problems that our foreign policy causes with acts of retribution and vengeance from its victims.

Another example of our elected idiots thinking for themselves and not us; as they promised they would do when they were trying to get elected. What ever happened to voting on stuff like this seems that more and more is being shoved down our throats without us ever getting to vote or even state our side of it!!

The research and the article ought to be be required reading by Ed Markey, the congressman from Mass. who had the grand idea of inserting this change into the energy bill. He's still going around touting the so-called savings that will supposedly be the result of this dubious and annoyingly unnecessary change, current evidence to the contrary. Of course getting a congressman to admit he might have been wrong about his own legislation would cause the earth to stop spinning.....

I'm not instituting DST in my home this year - or ever again. Until we do away with this silly annoyance, I will give all times to other people in real time/DST. I encourage everyone else not to play along with this farce. I knew it wouldn't be anything but a pain in the @$$.