wandering around target the other day, I spied a row of electric can openers. I hate electric can openers. I think they’re incredibly wasteful pieces of human technology. Just think about it: How much goes into that little piece of machinery? It takes resources to produce it, from the plastic that makes up the body to the steel that grinds into your tin can. It takes energy to run the machines putting it together. And once your handy-dandy can opener has broken, it takes a hulking huge garbage truck contributing to the rapidly diminishing supplies of fossil fuels to remove it from the premises and transport it to a landfill, where more machines smoosh it up and bury it in a big hole, where it not only takes up space but can also pollute the water supply. So people, PEOPLE! use a freaking hand can opener. You don’t have to use that little machine. Really.