Clock Day

Clock Day
by
Dr. Thursday

Clock Day is coming and the Congressman is fat
Time is unimportant when the Senate goes to bat!
If you think our clocks should stay in sync with noon by the sun's view
Then write* a letter to your rep
And God bless you!

[* In the modern age, you can amend this line to:
Then send an e-mail to your rep...]

God bless you, citizen, God bless you!
So write a letter to your rep and God bless you!

Clock Day is coming and the people give a howl:
Congress gives an order, so now what was fair is foul.
Such power has corrupted them, in all they say and do!
So send an e-mail to your rep
And God bless you!

God bless you, citizen, God bless you!
So send an e-mail to your rep and God bless you!

and, from GKC:

Anomalies do matter very much, and do a great deal of harm; abstract illogicalities do matter a great deal, and do a great deal of harm. And this for a reason that anyone at all acquainted with human nature can see for himself. All injustice begins in the mind. And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth. Suppose I had by some pre-historic law the power of forcing every man in Battersea to nod his head three times before he got out of bed. The practical politicians might say that this power was a harmless anomaly; that it was not a grievance. It could do my subjects no harm; it could do me no good. The people of Battersea, they would say, might safely submit to it. But the people of Battersea could not safely submit to it, for all that. If I had nodded their heads for them for fifty years I could cut off their heads for them at the end of it with immeasurably greater ease. For there would have permanently sunk into every man's mind the notion that it was a natural thing for me to have a fantastic and irrational power. They would have grown accustomed to insanity. GKC ILN March 10 1906 CW 27:139