I'm embarrassed to say I didn't even know we were in the market for these things but, there you go -- The Canadian Army just became the first international customer for Raytheon's 'Bunker Buster' missiles.... The TOW weapon system -- you probably knew -- is "the world's premier long-range precision anti-armor, anti-fortification, anti-amphibious landing weapon."

And how close have we come, in real life, to the society of vapid consumers, idle pleasure-seekers, inner-space trippers and programmed conformists that it presents?... And at the same time we want to be those anguished others, because we believe, with John, that life has meaning beyond the play of the senses, and that immediate gratification will never be enough.