Monday, March 12, 2007

Rant#1

Spray painted on the sidewalk in front of my building at work this morning (as well as other administrative buildings on campus):

"Apologize for the Chief" and "KKK est. 1906"

Now, I understand that the chief was a symbol that offended some folks and I also understand that some people felt some incredible attachment to it for whatever reason, but this kind of thing is what drives me so effin' bonkers about the whole pro vs. anti chief thing. Pro, anti, I really don't give two shits about it either way but FFS, comparing any of it to an organization that has actively and historically murdered and tortured people that are different from them just takes it a step over the line for me. Yeah, you can all have your sides and your feelings but dang, if you're going to spew inflamatory phrases to try and make your point, you've already compromised your stance and people's support in it, in my opinion.

Rant#2

This early daylight savings time shift is total bullshit. Even with the antiquated reasons behind the practice in the first place (allowing more daylight for farmers to work as I understand it), you've now made the change when (1) the farmers aren't really doing anything yet as the ground has been frozen for months and (2) the kids are still in school so they are now heading to the bus stop at barely more than dawn. And can someone please explain to me why we humans feel the need to try and manipulate time in the first place? For crying out loud, if you need more daylight hours to do stuff, adjust your damn schedule for wakening and sleeping. It doesn't have to be this hard. It's not like it actually makes the sun be up any more time than it was before.

Please feel free to vent away here if you have a Monday morning rant to share. Growl.

2 comments:

Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom said...

Daylight savings: My 2.5 year old was totally procratinating going to bed last night. We read the three new Easter books my husband bought for her twice. She came in to see what I was painting (the nursery) twice. She wanted to be rocked, twice. Then it dawned on me. My husband was putting her to bed at the usual 8:00, but her body was telling her it was only 7:00. I would have protested too!

Momo said...

This daylight savings stuff is BS!