Turning Back the Clock

Today we turned the clock back an hour -- like we do every year at this time. Some us are grateful for the extra hour of sleep. Some of us hate that it gets dark so much earlier. Some of us are grateful for the extra hour of sleep AND hate that it gets dark earlier. Such is life.

Next year at this time we'll turn the clock back again. But we'll also be doing something else at this time next year. We'll be deciding as a nation whether we want to turn the clock back on women's reproductive rights, on LGBT equality, on environmental protections, on just immigration reform, on workers' rights, etc, etc, etc. (It's a long list.)

I don't know about you but those are not clocks I'm willing to turn back. So we've got a year to figure this out. And we'd better figure it out.

Because there are things that are inconvenient -- like the sun going down before we're ready for it to. And there are things that are incomprehensible -- like not supporting an incumbent who isn't moving as fast as you'd like him to when the alternative is turning back the clock on women's reproductive rights, on LGBT equality, on environmental protections, on just immigration reform, on workers' rights, etc, etc, etc.

Seriously.