I'm too tired to do it tonight, having arrived at work about 4:30 this morning and left about 9:00 tonight, but expect sometime tomorrow (workload permitting) an extended, obscene rant about one LLoyd Levine, a fucking Assemblyfuck from Van Fucking Nuys, CA, who thinks it would be just peachy to ban incandescent lightbulbs.
Once again, it proves the wisdom of my suggestion to hang one politician per voting district per year. Though, truth be told, I'm starting to lean toward drawing and quartering.
Posted by Ken S at January 31, 2007 10:49 PM | TrackBack (0) |May I suggest impalement?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at January 31, 2007 10:55 PMYou've gone soft...
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 1, 2007 05:24 AMImpalement is not "soft". Not when you do it properly, anywho.
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at February 1, 2007 06:51 AMAnd I'm thinking of that poor little 100 year old lightbulb at the Livermore, CA fire station.
Are they going to kill it? Save the Livermore Light!
Look: I use some compact fluorescents at home because they save me on my electric bill and they mean I don't have to climb up on a ladder and endanger my safety as often to change them. But, by God, let me have the CHOICE of whether I want to use them or not. (In some settings, they're deuced ugly.)
"Assemblyfuck?"
Posted by: Joel, president of Catholics for Xenu at February 1, 2007 08:39 AMNot to mention there are places where you want the damn thing to come on at full luminescence right away.
I just htought of something - think of all the Hg this is going to introduce into the landfills. It's a tiny, tiny bit per bulb, but it all adds up.
I'd also like to see an economic anaysis of the production. The mini-ballasts in those things take more energy and resources to make than a simple incandescent threaded contact. It may be that this would look similar to the styrofoam / cardboard fast-food analysis - that while cardboard is biodegradable, it also costs more in energy to make than styrofoam, so McDonald's actually increased their carbon footprint by switching to carboard Big Mac containers. I'd be willing to be that making those compact fluorescents costs more in energy than making a simple incandescent.
Enviroweenies - emotion over reason every single time.
Posted by: John at February 1, 2007 08:43 AMIndeed John. That toxins in the landfill problem is part of what I want to rant about, assuming I get the time.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 1, 2007 08:57 AMJoel - cut me some slack ;)
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 1, 2007 08:57 AMShhh, Ken!
Then they'll ban fluorescent lights and we'll all be left in the dark.
Well, all of us except Barbra Streisand and those other "enlightened" (heh) souls who, because of their sheer extra-specialness, are allowed to have comforts that those of us plebians are denied.
Posted by: ricki at February 1, 2007 12:05 PMI wasn't criticizing, Ken. I was admiring. Sometimes the profanity here leaves me in awe.
[Wayne's World bow] I'm not worthy! [/Wayne's World bow]
Posted by: Joel, president of Catholics for Xenu at February 1, 2007 12:27 PMWell... you're not.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at February 1, 2007 12:45 PMSometimes the profanity here leaves me in awe.
Especially when Friday rolls around and Val's revved up.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at February 1, 2007 01:58 PMWhy don't we just replace lightbulbs with greenhouse-gas-producing torches?
Posted by: Alan K. Henderson, Disgruntled Republican at February 1, 2007 03:49 PM