Daylight Savings Time

     This Sunday marks the end of daylight savings time. This is my favorite night of the year because we get an extra hour of sleep (or partying since it’s Halloween night). Daylight savings time used to end at the beginning of October. That was until Congressman Markey sponsored a law that lengthened its time to what it is now. His thinking was that it would give people an extra hour of daylight later into the year & earlier in the spring than it used to be.

     All of that may be true but there’s a safety issue that’s been overlooked. The sun this week doesn’t rise until after 7 in the morning, when kids are walking to school. That means that for a vast majority of children on their way to school, they’re either walking on sidewalks (or in the streets if there isn’t a sidewalk) or they’re waiting for buses & trains in complete darkness. This is bad. What lawmakers should do is adjust the weeks that daylight savings time goes into effect. Make it start 1 or 2 weeks later & end 1 or 2 weeks earlier. That way, people still get later daylight & kids don’t walk to school in the dark.

Top 10 Torture Tunes

  Today, a group called the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo put out a press release talking about the use of music during torture sessions at the detention center. The reason why this is sorta news is that some major artists, including Pearl Jam & the Roots, signed the statement. Among the music that the CIA used to torture people with are Brittany Spears, Metallica, & rap music. I hope it was gangsta rap & not old school. I love old school & Metallica. Brittany Spears would be torture.

     Aside from the question as to why form a group for something that's actually being closed down (we'll have it closed within 1 year), it got me thinking about what music would I be tortured with if I were sent to some undisclosed detention facility. Here are my top 10 worst songs or artists to be tortured by:

1. The Macarena by whoever did that stupid song.

2. Rod Stewart

3. Achey Breakey Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.

4. God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood. Nice idea but way too Republican Party anthem. Plus, it's a really annoying song.

5. Any song that uses auto tune, which is pretty much every song on the pop charts today & every Lil Wayne rap song.

6. Country music with very few exceptions, such as Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Shania, Tim McGraw, & Johnny Cash.

7. Classical music - I actually like classical but too much of it will start reminding me of college classes sitting there in a room full of snobs who thought that only classical & jazz were the true art forms & that all other forms of music were beneath them to listen to.

8. Any Broadway musical.

9. Any version of any song that is sung by an American Idol contestant that is not from their own records.

10. Any song that has the word niggga in its lyrics.