Forget About the Money, I Want My Hour Back

A quick question for a rainy (oh so rainy) Sunday afternoon

With all the glibertarian bloggerati* out there, blathering on about the government stealing their prodigious assets and other sundries, and encroaching further and further into our daily affairs, how is it that none of them ever voiced any concern about the fact that the Washington fat cats think they can control time itself?

I mean this, mostly, as a joke, but if I were truly concerned about government intervening in things with which it has no rightful business, surely the machinations of the sun and earth would be high on my list. Perhaps there is some Libertarian Lear out there, bellowing into the storm of Daylight Savings Time and I haven’t stumbled on the particular corner of the internet. Or perhaps there’s a legitimate reason that Congress should have the power to set the very hours of the day but not regulate air traffic or commerce. I’m honestly intrigued.

*Yay for condescending appellations that discourage discourse with your intended interlocuter!**
**Double yay for using far-too-large words to get a minor point across!***
***Triple yay for asterisks, which, dear reader(s), you ought to accustom yourself to should you desire to read my posts, for I am very scatter-brained.