Canned Crap an American Tradition - Happy Birthday Canned Beer

We love it.  We just love it.  We pretend to hate it, but we love it.  Especially Brooklyn douchery culture:  "oh I'll just have a PBR, because I'm on a shoe-string budget . . . just look at my $196 skinny jeans."  They're so EVERYTHING ELSE!  But back to topic:

75 years ago yesterday, a New Jersey brewing company sold the first canned beer, and ever since Americans have had a love affair with watery beers in toss-away tin.  But check this out - not everybody does it that way!  I KNOW!

Can Capitalism and Sustainability Coexist? Lemme check my tablet. . .

With apple's newest and most hollered-about toy about to hit the market . . . just a few years after the iphone, and just weeks, perhaps, after they released their record-crushing profits from the very same, can we expect the leader in big-boy toys to ever take into consideration the wasteful lifestyle that 90s-style gadgetry spawned?  From treehugger:

"Ultimately, the buzz over this tablet device says we're a long, long way off from minimizing our consumption of goods - especially electronics - and that our technology is growing and changing faster than we can consume, appreciate, and more importantly reuse or recycle all of the things we create with our advancements."