In December 2007, Congress—in all of its brilliance (no pun intended)—decided to ban incandescent light bulbs. Starting with an initial phase-out in 2012, with a complete cull completed by 2014, Thomas Edison's wondrous invention will be no more.

Ron Jeremy is against full-body scans at airports. Though Jeremy has made his career taking off his clothes, he draws the line when it comes to having his body exposed to unknown government employees. He calls it an 'invasion of privacy.'

In the marketing world, you build your brand with buzz and protect it with advertising. The advent of advertising from Starbucks, which for years had quietly built a coast-to-coast coffee empire, indicated the company finally needed to place its flag on a metaphorical mountain of beans.

I've long been convinced the Green Lobby is out to destroy modern society in its ever-insatiable desire to find the "greenest" technology. Take for instance the latest "green" warning against electric cars.

Yes, electric cars. You know, the ones that are supposed to replace the evil internal combustion cars.