Vend It Like...Nah

( A Forgotten Hit From The Early Eighties )

Factoid

$85.

The price you can pay a teenage boy to strap on an explosive vest and blow himself up in Bagdad.

It's probably CHEAPER in Afganistan.

*Hears about a teenage boy being killed by a Knoxville resident during an attempted home-invasion over the radio news*

Life is cheap.

PS: Later today I heard the sports anchorman on the local news report on the massive salaries of the Manning brothers (star players for two of the top football teams in America) and I thought to myself "These guys could hire all the potential suicide bombers in the Middle East between them. And then we'd have no War On Terror." It's always been Rich Man's War, Poor Boys' Fight!

Firefox. (No, Not The Web Browser)

Got the 1982-vintage Clint Eastwood movie on DVD from the Big Lots bargain bin this evening. Just saw the end of the third act. The effects...have not aged well. The photographic grain is overmuch, the perspectives on the miniatures are unconvincing and they could have been smarter with the interfacing of the elements. But then again, it WAS 1982. A revolution has happened in the years since.

For the record, the Firefox story (if not all of Craig Thomas' pre-1984 technothriller novels!) is CANON for the Hackett Continuum.