Tuesday, October 26, 2010


Fun With Fascism!

As you are probably aware, phase out of incandescent light bulbs starts in 2012. Yep, that's right. The tried and true, good old fashioned, flay your flesh off, American as apple pie standard light bulb will be no more very soon. In fact, the last incandescent factory in the US closed down just a few weeks ago.

Most commonly taking the place of our warmly glowing little friends will be the sterile, efficient, and really expensive CFL. These mercury-laden, made in China "gems" will soon be uglyfying your gorgeous and also very expensive lighting fixtures sooner that you can blink. The "light" emitted by those little monsters make you look like you're having the worst day of your life no matter how much sleep you got last night AND ought to be sold with a Tyvek suit and a respirator in case you break one.


What to do?
Stock up! Here to help this very week (10/26) is Lowe's, who has Sylvania DoubleLife 60watt soft whites (proudly made in the USA, or used to be) in a BONUS pack. That's right. Buy 8 and get 4 free for only $4.98! Tell your firends you saw it here. 5 bucks for 12 of those beauties! Get 'em before they're gone!

How did this happen?!?

Well, it's all becasue of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This bright idea (pun intended, absolutely) was signed into law by George W. Bush and promoted by Queen Nancy as a way to lower energy costs. One wonders why she turned around and jammed Cap and Trade through the House if she was so worried about our energy costs. Funny that...

Note to George: Thanks a helluva lot, creampuff.

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