Today Mark Steyn ("The One-Man Global Content Provider") was a guest host on the Rush Limbaugh program.  Whenever he's on-the-air I try to catch his act.

Today he was reviewing the state of Maine's "Compact Flurorescent Lamp Breakage Study Report"...or as Steyn refers to them: Curly Fry Lamps.  More specifically he highlighted Appendix E of that report, the "Revised Cleanup Guidance", which does its level best to answer the question: "What if I accidentally break a flurorescent lamp in my home?"

The answer provided by the state of Maine is a simple, 14-step procedure.  Here's all you'll need:

• Rubber gloves
• A canning jar, one with a rubber seal
• A deck of playing cards
• Duct tape
• Wet wipes
• A utility knife (in case you need to remove a contaminated section of carpet)

Steyn's presentation of the proper procedure was quite droll, but you can get a flavor of its level of absurdity simply by reading the "Revised Cleanup Guidance".  His point was that the nanny statists have solved a problem that didn't exist.  By replacing incandescent light bulbs (invented by Thomas Edison) with CFLs, we've traded somewhat greater energy usage for mercury poisoning.

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