OT: Daylight Stupid Time March 13, 2016

Guess this is as good a history as any:

Thought it was WWII but actually started in WWI to save energy.

Heard a talking head on Fox say it takes about 2 weeks for the human body to react to the sudden time switch.

I bought one of those "DST adjusting" (not NOT auto setting even though the ads claimed it was) in 2005. There were two switches on the bottom. One was for different time zones. The other switched between "old DST rules" and "new DST rules". there was NO setting for "no DST".

After the little (IIRC CR2032) cell died. It never set itself or even kept time.

These "DST adjusting" clocks (I'm NOT referring to these that actually set themselves) usually need a little setting (after DST change) because of accumulated errors during the half year (for example, most clocks with backup batteries run fast during a power outage).

We be on ObamaTime. ;-)

Today I was reading about huge kickbacks that pharmacy benefit programs demand - and get - from pharma companies to put their drugs on the benefit administrator's formulary. It's a criminal act costing citizens millions (and maybe billions) in kickbacks to various players. Take your choice of articles:

He cut funding for something