Which brings me to the most germane topic at hand, given the gold stock hiatus, the Bush-Hussein Terrorist Texas Death Match, and the strange diseases being jetted worldwide about this time, and that is metric time. It is an idea, if you will pardon the expression, whose measurement has come. If we are doing metric everything else, id est, 10's 100's and 1000's a la Napoleon's rigorous science, then what on gods' green earth are we thinking about with 365 days, 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds? Even the military straightened the whole angle business out with mils et al. No sextagenarians them, or whatever the Babylonians called it when they had base 60 system. It is clear that time would be hellishly easier if it were all straightened out to metric time. !000 days in a year, 10 days in a week, 10 weeks in a month and 10 months in a year. 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute. It is easy to see that there would be far fewer people late for work. Figuring out schedules would be a snap, and predicting when things would happen that fluctuated regularly would be reduced to a simple decimal formula. Feeding the kid 2.19 times a day is obviously far easier than every four hours.
I know what people are going to say. Days and years are a natural form of division. Metric doesn't care. 10's are easier than 24. Who cares when the sun comes up? Roosters, and the odd plant that's about all. Set your LCD alarm wrist watch to wake you ever 27.3785 hours and you will never be late for anything again. It has an obvious and attractive simplicity to it.
Which brings us to the latest overtures from the Whitehouse. The president has said that he will withdraw from Iraq, if Sadaam Hussein says he is very, very sorry, he will never make any more weapons of mass destruction again, and he bends over and shows his bum on CNN.
We are awaiting the reply from Iraq.
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