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The midterms are fast approaching, as is the “fall back” to Standard Time: that blissful-but-all-too-brief 4-month period in which our clocks & schedules align in a healthy way with our natural circadian rhythms, allowing us to flourish for 1/3 of the year until we “spring forward” back into the earthly hell known as “Daylight Savings.”

With the Orwellian-named “Sunshine Protection Act” (which Marco Rubio has been pushing since he was a Senator back in 2018 & which Donald Trump also vehemently supports) dangerously close to passing — the House has passed it, Trump supports it, & only a few Senators are holding it up at the moment — & with the “Fall Back” to Standard/Benevolent time coming in a few weeks, CJ decided to revisit the unhealthy absurdity known as DST.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Some info on the pending evil called the “Sunshine Protection Act” [sic] that would make DST permanent, including some unhinged rants from Donald Trump in support of it, & overwhelming expert opinion in favor of ending the biannual time change, but in favor of Standard Time rather than DST
• Where the idea of biannual time changes & Daylight Savings Time (DST) came from historically. (Hint: As is usually the case with anything bad in the past 100 years, Woodrow Wilson bears some of the blame.)
• Some of the problems, costs, and even dangers of DST
• The origin of standardized time zones (which originated more in the private sector) as a contrasting case study
• The idea of DST as a rebellion against nature

“SOCJ!” — Save Our CJ (& the DHP!)

Due to events of the past 6 weeks, CJ has not only been slowed down on multiple DHP projects that, back in August, he expected he’d be able to complete in September; but, unfortunately, this has also caused his family to again be in an acute financial emergency!

If you’re not in a financial crisis yourself, & you value the DHP & want to help it continue, (and/or if you care about CJ & want to help him out), please consider sending him a few bucks or quid or doubloons or denarii or whatever!

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• Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes

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(For Sending Him Items of Support, Including, but not Limited to: Wads of Bills, Sacks of Gold Doubloons, Pieces of Eight, Freeze-Dried Flapjacks, etc.)

CJ Killmer

Dangerous Media Productions

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Bunnell, FL 32110

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• A 2020 NBC News article on the controversy surrounding the time change (Note how, among opponents of the time change, the politicians favor year-round DST, while actual scientists & medical people support year-round Standard Time — why, it’s almost like politicians don’t give a shit about science or human health & well-being when it goes against what they want!)
• A 2019 article from Washington University in St. Louis talking to one of their experts about the virtues of Standard Time, which includes links to other related articles.
• The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 position statement in favor of Standard Time
• Save Standard Time (a website & organization dedicated to making Standard Time year-round for the sake of human well-being)