Legal Commentary

Happy Pi Day

By Kenneth Anderson

March 14, Pi Day.  3.141 ... also, of course, the return of daylight savings time.  I regret the lost hour, and the sense of weird jet lag, and it would be great if there were any sun rather than a third day of rain, but still, light in the evening!  Life can go on.  I?m increasingly an Aztec by religious conviction, I?m afraid, and every winter I fear that the Fifth Age of the world has ended and the sun will return no more.  So DST is almost like ... an Aztec ritual!  The kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial New Fire Ceremony.

Update:  With the approach of spring, I was temporarily seized with the milk of human kindness (kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial ...).  Oh heck, I?m an Aztec.  New Fire Ceremony.  You know where this is going.  We must get with the program.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on March 14, 2010 (boomark / email).