solar-powered tanning beds?!

From Joseph Bottum in First Things...

Susan McWilliams, a professor of politics at Pomona College, sighted something truly Californian: a solar-powered tanning salon. According to the salon’s website, “Sunlounge Tanning Studio & Spa has taken the first step to reducing its energy demand with the use of solar power. I guess you can say that this is the closest you’ll get to tanning outdoors when you’re actually tanning indoors. In a sense, we’re the sun’s middle man.”

Insert California joke here...