POV: A Vulture on Culture

What is it with "high noon"? I mean,
I get the position of the sun and all, and I
can see how, in a time before many carried
time in their pockets, it might have been
useful: no need to build consensus as to
the appointed hour, at least among the
sighted, and on a clear day more or less.
One less variable to verify, I guess, in a
world where all that was required to kill
a man in the street at high noon was to
verify one's own slight-borne rage. Is that
Hollywood exaggeration – or sanitation?
In either case, it seems, snowflakes fall at 

high-noon too, under clear or cloudy skies.