Don't turn on that switch. The lightbulb police maybe watching. "The first step we're taking sets new efficiency standards on fluorescent and incandescent lighting," President Obama announced yesterday at the White House. "Now I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and our businesses." It is getting dark.

Manufacturers and other businesses should be required to produce goods and services and conduct their businesses in a manner that reduces environmental degradation and adverse health effects. I don't see how any rational or ethical case could be made against this. Visit the Chesapeake Bay, or an inner-city health clinic brimming with asthma sufferers, and the human and environmental cost of inefficient consumer goods and greedy and inimical business practices are self-evident.

Not sure what point this post tries to prove. I suppose it's another "Ooh, scary government" post that's so en vogue with the teabaggers these days. Maybe we can revert to the days when lead was in gasoline, DDT was being sprayed in our neighborhoods, and factories were dumping PCB's into the water shed?

I've got an idea: let's take all responsibilities and decision making away from adults. In that way, those who know better (aka - the government) can make it their work to allow for our every need and, in the process, control our every move.

Sounds like a plan.