Unilateral time change

This morning I was reminded of my unilateral-thinking president and his unique hour change to combat terrorism, global warming and low-mileage SUVs - one week after the rest of the industrialized world - when I glanced at my bedroom clock while hearing the noise of our central heating kicking in at 5 am instead of 6. You see, our night table clock is only half-way smart by nowadays standards. It was programmed like your ordinary robot to tell the time changes for years to come before George W. Bush would screw it all up. Our kitchen atomic clock – which is a lot smarter - knew that and didn’t over-react by still showing the correct 6 am time. Perhaps, because it’s “atomic”, it heeded the influence of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who, thanks to G.W. is now the authority in the nuclear matter, and by extension, more in the know when it comes to telling the right time than our "nukular" very own…