Earth Hour's Dim Wits

Let's see--just how much do you care about the planet? Apparently the organizers of something called Earth Hour have decided you should care about it for about 60 minutes, or 1/24th of a day. That's how long they want you to "sit in the dark" and consider life without electricity, or something like that.

The event, held worldwide towards the end of March annually since 2007, was started in Sydney, Australia. It caught on, and soon enough other countries wanted to turn their lights out too. But let's not go crazy, after all it is a Saturday night. Thus you are encouraged to turn off your "non-essential" lights for one hour (at 8:30PM EST) to symbolize your commitment to Mother Earth. Best of all, you get to decide what is non-essential. I'm guessing that night-light in the bathroom and the one in the hall closet will go. After all, it's a whole hour and we wouldn't want to be too inconvenienced. It's only the planet.