In defense of the light bulb

Opinion

Apr 12, 20071 min

Regular readers will understand that the author of this blog is pretty much a card-carrying member of Knee-Jerk Liberals for Peace and Al Gore. So it pains me greatly – more than you might imagine – to recommend and agree with this column on the editorial page of today’s Wall Street Journal excoriating environmentalists and lawmakers for their jihad against the common light bulb. … Priorities, people.

Data Center

by Paul McNamara

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In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.

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