Look Ron, me bucko, I don't want to get into a pissing contest with you, and I use CFLs in my house too,
but I can't fathom why you would choose to make such glaringly false assertions about the danger
associated with the mercury they contain:

The mercury is minuscule in these new lights, probably more in the fish I had for dinner

You are probably in more danger opening a jar of jelly than you are from a CFL.

As you observed, CFLs contain about four milligrams, but a six ounce serving of salmon contains
about 0.2 of a microgram—it'd take 7500 pounds of salmon to contain four milligrams of mercury.

Your second assertion strikes me as reckless. Someone here reading what you wrote might well
construe it to mean that when a CFL drops and breaks it can be cleaned up in the same way a broken
jelly jar can be dealt with which could lead to tragic results, especially if there are young children in
the household. I strongly urge everyone to review the EPA page I referenced: What to Do if a Fluorescent Light Bulb Breaks

—BK