I know I'm not a troll too, so it's really kinda nice that we agree on that part. (Shall we now sing "Kumbayah" together? *bigottergrin*)

Looking around the current apartment while typing this message, I see that with the minor exceptions of light bulbs that live in the fridge, the oven, and the mickeywave, then there isn't an unnatural non-solar light source in here that *isn't* either CFL or just plain FL. Wow.

(Windows -- non-Micro$loth ones, I mean real windows as in aperture thingies -- *do* count as solar light sources for at least part of the day, right?)

So, anyway, crappy color temperature slash broken-spectrum specs ain't exactly the driving force here. But I really do I could find actual full-spectrum CFL lamps like the ones I already have in my FLs here on Planet Otter.

Full-spectrum CFL lamps may indeed be available, in fact I assume that they already are, except for that they are neither commonly-available nor even relatively cost-effective. Like certain endangered medical procedures, apparently they are still safe legal and rare.

For the nonce, though, I haven't seen full-spectrum CFL lamps lurking on the shelves in any of the places I customary dawdle in the aisles. At such time as I do, then I will take notice and grok them accordingly.

However... since as you duly noted, these damn things do last forever, then I reckon as how by the time I'm finally shopping for some new replacements CFLs the nicer, friendlier, kindly-to-the-amygdala versions will be as ubiquitous as wingnut bloggers regurgitating recycled RW talking points...