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• Why We’re Taking Your Light Bulbs Away

  The former news magazine US News and World Report kindly explains to the great unwashed why we can no longer have incandescent light bulbs: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) laughs as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) looks over her shoulder during a signing ceremony for the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington December 19.

• Father Sought For “Honor Killings” - In Dallas

  From those defenders of the faith at the Dallas Morning News: Lewisville cabdriver sought in slayings of 2 teen daughters Bodies of 2 Lewisville teens found in taxi; dating issues probed Thursday, January 3, 2008 By WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News Area police continue to search for a man who they believe killed his two teenage daughters and left their bodies in a taxi at an Irving hotel.

• Today’s Candid Moments With The Clintons

  From the wire services. First, the loving couple before they realize that they are being photographed: Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton attend church service at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa, December 23, 2007. Then the happy couple see the photographer’s camera: Democratic presidential candidate U.

• Reuters Sobs: Illegal Aliens Are Going Home

  From a heartbroken Reuters: Illegal immigrants “self deport” as woes mount By Tim Gaynor Mon Dec 24 Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down with her husband Marco Antonio in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico. She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix, but now she figures it is time to go back to her hometown of Aguascalientes in central Mexico.

• Dem Candidates Seek Sharpton’s Blessing

  From those seekers of racial justice at the Washington Post: Not Relevant? Sharpton Scoffs at the Idea Activist’s Busy Calendar and Ringing Phone Speak to His Role in Civil Rights By Keith B. Richburg Wednesday, December 26, 2007; A01 NEW YORK — Even by his own frenetic standards, the Rev. Al Sharpton has had a busy 12 months. Late last year was the police shooting in Queens of Sean Bell.

• Hillary: I’ve Know Mrs. Bhutto Many Years

  From a campaign press release: Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the Death of Benazir Bhutto “I am profoundly saddened and outraged by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a leader of tremendous political and personal courage. I came to know Mrs. Bhutto over many years, during her tenures as Prime Minister and during her years in exile. Mrs. Bhutto’s concern for her country, and her family.

• Hillary Knows How To Work With Military

  From MSNBC: Enlarge Clinton, ‘too serious’? Athena Jones ELKADER, Iowa — Hillary Clinton spoke today about people’s perceptions of her and about the importance of a candidate’s relationship with the military. “Some people think I am maybe too serious a person,” she told an audience packed into an opera house in this town near the Wisconsin border in northeastern Iowa. “Well, that’s not the way I am all the time.

• Clinton Neighbor Held For Killing His Wife

  From the DNC’s Associated Press: Carlos Perez-Olivo stood firmly behind his story that a mystery gunman had run his car off the road before shooting his wife to death. Clinton neighbor held in NY killing By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A disbarred lawyer who is a neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton was being held on $1 million bail Friday after being charged in the shooting death of his wife.

• Al Qaeda Torture Chamber Found In Iraq

  From those champions of the Geneva Conventions at the Associated Press: In this image released by the U.S. Army, Thursday Dec. 20, 2007 bodies found in a mass grave near a torture chamber are seen near Muqdadiyah, Iraq. Torture chamber found in Iraq By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 21 BAGHDAD - Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor — the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al.

• Merry Christmas To All Of Our S&L Family!

  Merry Christmas to our wonderful extended family! From all of us here at Sweetness & Light, Inc., including the corporate management, the administrative staff, editorial staff, the (non-striking) writers, the fact checkers, the layout artists, the typesetters, the legal department, the accountants, the production assistants, the paid and unpaid interns, the runners, the switchboard operators.