I'll Take the Incandescent, Thank You Very Much

There's been a lot of hoopla about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs recently, first about how they're going to save the world, then a reaction about how their mercury content may be a problem, and then a reaction to the reaction, downplaying the risks of the mercury. Of course, most of the "don't worry about the mercury" arguments assume that we'll all be good eco-citizens and recycle our dead CFLs instead of throwing them in the trash. Good luck with that. Once again, we find that as much as the government and media want one, there's simply no magic solution to most of our problems.

Personally, I'm going to stick with the technology whose broken-bulb cleanup procedures have fewer than 5 steps. My favorite part is this one:

"As a precaution, consider discarding throw rugs or the area of carpet where the breakage occurred"