Killin' Time

MONDAY 10/26/2009

Why is it with all our modern technology my alarm clock doesn't know that Daylight Savings Time begins a week later than it used to. This is the same clock that won't let me set it a few minutes ahead for wake-up purposes, but always re-corrects itself. If it's set to sync with the big Greenwich Mean Time Prime Meridian via Atomic Clock that measures absolute accurate time. But still doesn't know diddly squat about Daylight Savings. Luckily that's the only clock in the house that screwed up the time over the weekend. THE MOST IMPORTANT CLOCK IN MY HOUSE! Anyhow, perhaps this is another sign that the United States Congress should not be messing with time in the first place. There is virtually nothing the Guvmint can do that The Market or God can't do better.

Evidently, the "anti-gravity broom" story has spread far and wide. Wide enough for Joe Ross, a professor of astronomy and physics at Texas A&M to debunk it. As you recall from some of our previous episodes, listeners had told us of the mysterious phenomenon of brooms standing upright on their bristles solo without the benefit of anchor. Speculation was that it was planet alignment, gravity fluctuations or Black Magic. Cassie Smith from the Bryan College Station Eagle newspaper gets the real story here.