MORE OPPOSITION TO THE IDIOTIC INCANDESCENT BULB BAN PROPOSAL, which typically is being sponsored by nanny-in-chief Mike Bloomberg:

The anti-light-bulb campaign isn’t creeping socialism—it’s nanny-state capitalism: a cross-ideological alliance to force-market lousy products to the public. The left gets to see environmental virtue written into law; the right gets to see the negative consequences of that law fall on individual consumers, rather than, say, the power industry.

I’m happy to use CFLs, and to encourage other people to try them. (I’m writing this in a room lit entirely by CFLs, and the light’s fine.) But people whose first instinct is to force this kind of change are people who have a serious character disorder.