The Single Most "Human Hostile" Product Since Lead Paint or Zyklon B

Remember when the CFL was presented as the Future of Lightbulbs? We'd all be thrilled to replace our archaic incandescents with high-tech CFLs. Just to hasten us along in the proper direction, the old bulbs were banned, lest people go all squirrelly and anti-social and prefer them to CFLs. Then came LED bulbs, which were A) better, and B) didn't require opening every window in the house and wearing gas masks if you dropped one. Well:

GE just announced that it no longer make or sell compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) lightbulbs in the US. The company will wind down the manufacturing of CFL bulbs by the end of 2016, and it will begin to shift its focus on making the newest and most energy-efficient lightbulbs, LEDs.

Those absurd bulbs were also the product of grotesque collusion between GE and the U.S. government.  Since GE wasn't making very much off of the simple incandescent bulbs that we all used and liked, they had the government declare them verboten, stopped making them, forced the poisonous CFL bulb on us [seriously, Maine's Dept. of Environmental Protection had a fourteen page pamphlet on how to clean up after a broken bulb, including such gems as "don't use a vacuum cleaner" and "clear the room for at least 24 hours"] and told us it was for our own good.

After all, it was for the environment and children.  You don't want to harm the environment and children, do you?  So, BUY THE DANG BULBS!

I'm really glad I horded incandescent bulbs until reason, and market factors, prevailed.  Oh, and this used to be a much better country that it is now.