Earth spins faster if you go West. Now, I know that's untrue in more than one way in the scientific sense, but in daily life it makes more sense. Go West and you can eat you dinner in ten minutes (ready in two) while watching world history that's condensed in two-sentence soundbites, two minute CNN items or, for the intellectuals, twenty minutes of Discovery Channel. (And if there's no commercial as an excuse for a break, they just throw some two minute movie or a preview about a documentary ...