Waking up this morning was horrible. And it wasn't because I was hung over (which I was), it was because my alarm said 8am but my body said "bullshit" and knew damn well that it was 7am.

Daylight Savings Time (or DST if you are one of those people who says things like "poss", "def" and "brosef") is horrible. The government is stealing my hour, and I want it back. I'm not a farmer, no one I know is a farmer, I don't care that I can get an extra hour of sunlight. I want an extra hour of sleep.

I did some research into DST and according to Wikipedia, it was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin, then envoy to France, as a way for the French to economize energy. And you know what? Had it stopped there, that would've been fine by me. Screw the French, no one likes them anyway. But no, the idea, like so many Africans, boarded a ship, and came to the New World.

It wasn't until 1918 that the US officially hopped on the DST bandwagon, after Germany and it's allies (not the Allies) had adopted the system during WWI. It seems the government realized it could cut costs on energy consumption if they had people wake up an hour earlier because people need less energy in the evening due to natural light. Well, isn't that just great for the government? Meanwhile, its 8am (aka 7am) my alarm is ringing, which is making my head (which is already ringing of its own accord...thanks Rikaloff), ring even more. Damn it.

While looking into this issue, I did come across some interesting tidbits of information. For example, the state of Indiana, until 2005, refused to observe Daylight Savings Time. Just flat out said, enh this isn't for us. Indiana is a bad ass; so much so that I propose we redraw all maps of the United States, and give Indiana a Chuck Norris beard for its efforts. Here's another cool story I found on webexhibits.org:

In September 1999, the West Bank was on Daylight Saving Time while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled them to their Israeli counterparts, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded--one hour too early--killing three terrorists instead of the intended victims--two busloads of people.

And riddle me this, reader...what happens to babies born at what would be 2:01am on the day the clocks change ahead? Yup, they are born at 3:01. There are no babies born between 2am and 3am every year on the day of DST. And just in case that didn't get your mind going, think about the reverse situation. You can have a set of twins with one being delivered at 1:55am and one delivered at 2:00am, but we throw the clock back, so that 2nd kid is now born at 1am, and legally goes from being the younger child, to the older child.

It's crazy that the government does this every year. And it's also crazy that they can change when Daylight Savings Time occurs. They just up and changed it a few years ago, to once again, save a little money. The United States Government is stealing my sleep for their own financial gain, and I for one, am not pleased. But you know who probably really gets pissed off about DST? Native Americans. I can just hear them now "Those sons of bitches, first they want my land, now they want my hour...."

-Adam