Wednesday, January 01, 2014

The Light of Freedom

...just got a hell of a lot dimmer. [More]

Taking inspiration from Mike's "Toys for Totalitarians" campaign, guess what I'm going to do with burned-out fluorescent bulbs that need to be specially disposed because of mercury content ... the only question being if I decide to break them first...

Lightbulbs for Leninists? CFLs for Commies? 

Speaking of bright ideas, a revered traditional iconic cartoon convention has now been rendered obsolete. This just doesn't work for me:
UPDATE: And speaking of cartoons, Bear reminds us it's been done.

UPDATE: Many retailers still have 'em and have not completely sold out their existing stock, so you may want to go out and get a few years' supply before the shelves are emptied, that is, assuming the grid will be up that long...

5 comments:

Bear said...

I'm guessing that it's something along these these lines.

Kent McManigal said...

Rough duty incandescent bulbs are exempt from the newest silly anti-liberty rule (it's not a "law" since it is based not on defense against aggression or theft, but on some anti-liberty bigot's notions of what he wants to force you to do).

Anonymous said...

Less light; more price; more toxic waste.

Gotta be a 'green' inititive!

[To improve our lives?]

More dimwittery

Anonymous said...

"Rough duty" bulbs? Assault bulbs, you mean!

Why do you always have to keep abusing the loopholes in our lovely laws?

Archer said...

Fluorescents for Fascists?

CFLs for CFLs? (Compact Fluorescent Lights for Collectivist Fascist Lib-tards?)

I can do this all day.

(On a personal note, we've had several so-called "10-year" CFL bulbs die within 1.5 years. So, they're dimmer, more expensive, contain hazardous materials, don't last any longer, and I question the energy "savings." Sounds like a "solution" to me!)