Free speech can certainly be taken too far: in the US it has lead to an inability to restrict spending on political campaigns to the point that most senators spend most of their time fundraising for … (View Post)

Teenagers in general are not morning people: making them get up an hour earlier than they have to is probably not a great idea. As to European Time, my experience of France is that most of it actuall… (View Post)

The dates are not symmetrical because of the shape of the Earth's orbit and the axial tilt, combined with our need in the modern world to make each day exactly 24 hours long rather than fudging it by… (View Post)

Don't go there... (View Post)

Too many syllables: a proper haiku is 5:7:5 (View Post)