If your appointment is in El Paso at 11:30 you don’t need to remember that it’s in a different time zone than the rest of Texas. A flight that leaves New York at 14:00 and lands in Paris at 20:00 is a six-hour flight, with no need to keep track of time zones. The difference from today is that if you were putting together a London-LA conference call at 21:00 there’d be only one possible interpretation of the proposal. But of course London’s bartenders would probably be at work while some shift workers in LA would be grabbing a nap. So at 23:00, most of London would be at home or in bed and most of Los Angeles would be at the office. In general most people would sleep when it’s dark out and work when it’s light out. If the whole world used a single GMT-based time, schedules would still vary. Tolkien to weep in his grave–and then wrote this doozy: Ygleasias then called for “One time to rule them all”–a phrase that prompted J.R.R. It’s to shift the world to one giant time zone. Commuting across time zones would be more annoying still, which is why the suburbs of Chicago that are located in Indiana use Illinois’ Central Time rather than Indianapolis’ Eastern Time.īut the ultimate solution to this problem is not a lot of ad hoc deviations. The need to constantly specify which time zone you’re talking about is a drag. It is genuinely annoying to schedule meetings, calls, and other arrangements across time zones. Yet while these zig-zags and 30-minute zones destroy the pristine geometry of railroad time, they serve a very practical purpose. India has broken with the general scheme and adopted a half-hour staggered time zone so as to place the entire country on one time. Northern Idaho is connected via I-90 to Spokane and Seattle to its west, but not to Boise to its south so the Couer d’Alene area is on Pacific Time rather than Mountain Time. In what was a typical example of Vox being a waste of space, Yglesias wrote a 2014 piece titled “The case against time zones: They’re impractical & outdated.” Yglesias pontificated: Yglesias advocated for ending time zones. It’s a very progressive bunch and Lieberman could easily be outvotedĤ. There’s a whole bunch - Boxer, Cardin, Feingold, Feinstein, Franken, Kohl, Lautenberg, Levin, Lieberman, Sanders, Schumer, Specter, and Wyden. I’ve long held a related theory about Eric Cantor.Īnyways, this reminds me that at a meeting this morning I pitched the idea of trying to do health reform in a secret Christmas morning session that only Jewish Senators would attend. I think he just has no idea what he’s talking about and doesn’t care to learn” With Lieberman, we all suspect it’s part of a plan. If Senator Smith from Idaho was angering Democrats by spewing uninformed platitudes, most liberals would deride him as an idiot. “I suspect that Lieberman is the beneficiary, or possibly the victim, of a cultural stereotype that Jews are smart and good with numbers,” Chait wrote. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) had to be stupid for not supporting the public option. Yglesias once ranted against “dumb Jewish politicians.” The leftist pundit wrote a ThinkProgress piece in 2009 that was seriously titled “Dumb Jewish Politicians,” in which Yglesias highlighted a passage from Jonathan Chait, who wrote in the New Republic that then-Sen. MT It’s clear that Jindal’s a very smart man who just says lots of very dumb stuff.ģ. The irony of Yglesias saying this was not lost on Twitter:
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