60 watts but how many whys?

I’ve been muttering darkly to myself about the demise of the 60 watt light bulb, which today became illegal.

The economy is tottering precariously on the edge of a W-shaped dip.

Much of Europe’s on the brink of bankruptcy, just reward for years of profligate vanity spending, the bail out of which our children will be paying for long into the following generation.

Just about every day we hear about the demise or dilution of what many consider essential services.

The Middle East is in turmoil, taking tentitative steps towads democracy. Yet we can’t help as much as we might because we’re cutting back on the might of our own armed focus.

Elsewhere we hear that the spread of HIV is still a rising spectre, 25 years after we were first implored not to die of ignorance.

Yet, despite all this, we still employ people to legislate on how we light our homes.

It doesn’t seem to matter that the alternative that’s being imposed is rubbish, more expensive, doesn’t work as well and most normal people don’t want them.

The invisible mandarins have spoken. We will pay.