Ah, Saturday night. What better time to prepare the Sunday morning reading? The pimps and hos are out in force; evidence of theme parties abounds here in beautiful Boulder, Colo.! And here we are, ensuring a pleasant and informational (and if you’re very good and read the whole thing, hilarious) tomorrow. In we go!

Looks like Australia will ban incadescent bulbs. This is fantastic news for anyone who wants good things to happen ever. Here’s the part that blows me away — the part where we get from John Howard’s country to Hugo Chavez’s country in a very short span of time:

Australia is not the only place looking to replace them with fluorescent lighting, which is more efficient and longer lasting.

Last month, a California assemblyman announced he would propose a bill to ban the use of incandescent bulbs in his state. And a New Jersey lawmaker has called for the state to switch to fluorescent lighting in government buildings within three years.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro launched a similar program two years ago, sending youth brigades into homes and switching out regular bulbs for energy-saving ones to help battle electrical blackouts around the island.

The idea was later embraced by Castro’s friend and ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who announced his own program to save energy and in recent months has given away millions of incandescent bulbs in neighborhoods nationwide.

Hey, if this is something so basic that John Howard, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez can agree on it — all three men not known for agreeing with anyone on anything — maybe we should feel a little like we’re falling behind here.

They’re talking about Bill Richardson over at Donklephant, saying he may be the guy who knows where to start making progress in the Middle East:

Like it or not, Iran is now a major player in the Middle East. We just eliminated their biggest foe in Saddam Hussein and now it behooves us to engage the beast we helped empower. As distasteful as it may be, we need a much more robust relationship with the Iranian government. That’s our best hope to prevent Iran from acquiring the bomb.

They link to his editorial in the Washington Post, too. And, let’s go for the trifecta. American Prospect just finished talking about how weird it is that nobody’s talking about Richardson:

Here’s something else you might expect to garner some buzz: If that same Democrat also found some spare time in January to broker a cease-fire between the government of Sudan and some major rebel factions in Darfur. That kind of person might be someone who understands that these sort of humanitarian tragedies can’t just be ended purely through righteous indignation.

That’s a lot of politics, so we’ll close out our Sunday morning reading with some hilarious, outrageous jokes. Are you familiar with Brad Neely? If not, get right in there…

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