April 5, 2007

It’s all about logic

If we learned nothing else from Ronald Reagan, it’s that both ends of the seesaw can’t be up at same time. If we have a finite set of anything — marbles, tax dollars, hours in a day — moving them from one pocket to another still leaves us with the same number, just in a different place.

So, anyone who is surprised to learn that moving to daylight savings time three weeks early resulted in little or no net power savings, just shifted consumption from night to morning, please sign up for the nearest basic mathematics class immediately. That includes every member of Congress who voted for the switch.

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If we learned nothing else from Ronald Reagan, it’s that both ends of the seesaw can’t be up at same time. If we have a finite set of anything — marbles, tax dollars, hours in a day — moving them from one pocket to another still leaves us with the same number, just in a different place.

So, anyone who is surprised to learn that moving to daylight savings time three weeks early resulted in little or no net power savings, just shifted consumption from night to morning, please sign up for the nearest basic mathematics class immediately.…

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