>> ^Kreegath:
Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?
Neither this nor the Sparta scene referenced sparked the kind of admiration in me that it apparently did in the majority. It just felt disgustingly nonchalant of human life.


Old kind of heros?
Like Hercules? Achillies?

I think society would be contemptibly evil if all we watched was Christmas specials.

Why must the heroes of today be such villains? Whatever happened to the old kind of heroes, who were actually promoting ideals and not cold-blooded murder?
Neither this nor the Sparta scene referenced sparked the kind of admiration in me that it apparently did in the majority. It just felt disgustingly nonchalant of human life.

no dannym3141

THIS IS SPARTA

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
THIS IS SPARTA!


Awww you stole my thunder. I was gunna say they should be called Spartan sharks. Hey It works, If I'm not mistaken, sharks are the shit.

THIS IS SPARTA!

Thain ya dingbat, it's a remix of the 300 style song...This is Sparta!!!

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBA0SKmQy8

I believe the meme 'THIS IS SPARTA' applies

"You win my award for the best response to this of the bunch. Instead of ridiculing her, we need to figure out why people get this way, and do our best to prevent this kind of hardheaded ignorance."

We know why people get that way: because thinking is hard and believing is easy.

Because if you pander to their bigotry they'll justify your avarice.

There is no fixing it. Every time you try to expand their minds, they'll accuse you of being in league with the devil.

They will win, and we liberals will lose, the same way that Sparta beat Athens.

I...AM...BEOWULF...AND...THIS...IS...SPARTA!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
It's actually a Beowulf moment.

This...is...Sparta! Trippy, indeed.

THIS! IS! SPARTA! You thilly boy.

artist - Title [Album]

01. the pillows - TONIGHT [WHITE INCARNATION]
02. CONDOR44 - AZKD(on the crucial rhythms) [Good Bye 44th music]
03. PROTOKOLL - Sunken [PARADOXON]
04. bloodthirsty butchers - nagisanite [yamane]
05. SPARTA LOCALS - 黄金WAVE [セコンドファンファーレ]
i.e. Gold Wave [Second Fanfare]
06. My Bloody Valentine - Touched [Loveless]
07. ZAZEN BOYS - COLD SUMMER [ZAZEN BOYS]
08. The Jam - Slow Down [In the City]
09. 凛として時雨 - セルジオ越後(LIVE in 高崎フリーズ) [として]
i.e. ling tosite sigure - Sergio Echigo (Live in Takasaki Fleez) [tosite]
10. GUIDO - 時の最果て [クロノトリガー　「ザ・ブリンク・オブ}
39;タイム」]
i.e. The End of Time [Chrono Trigger "The Brink of Time"]
(this is a really really tight sort of Acid Jazz arrangement album of 10 songs from Chrono Trigger, and I love it muchly)

Well...this is the reason I don't really listen to my music on shuffle. The volume of Japanese rock and indie rock on there makes it so that the odds of busting out any of the other Western music I love is a little low, but the awesomeness of it starting with my favorite band on random was pretty neat. I was pleasantly surprised that The Jam managed to pop up, since due to space issues I currently only have that one album in here right now.

Awesome fun!

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http://www.slate.com/id/2191500

This article sums up the problems with the "direct democracy" theory (or the idea that the will of the people is paramount) is a very funny way, particularly the first paragraph.

And California still has the option of amending its own Constitution to prohibit the reading offered by the majority in this case. And re-amending it when another majority takes hold, and re-amending . . .

In my view, the California Supremes both made the right call and fulfilled the role of a judiciary which is not merely to read the polls on a social issue, determine the majority view, and protect the majority. The facts of this case are no different than the facts of earlier miscegenation cases. The Mildred Loving case did not lead to polygamy and dogs and cats marrying each other. Southern Virginians in wide majorities also believed that a black person marrying a white person would lead to Sodom, Gomorrah, and biracial people becoming President (even Southern Virginians are right some of the time).

I have never seen an argument that convinces me that a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman harms civil society. No advanced criminal statistics, no economic indicators of commodity prices plunging due to gay people forming families, no social indicators of degraded schools and poor music in church. There are no compelling rational arguments against permitting two homosexual people in love to be recognized as a family by the State.

I have seen plenty of irrational arguments -- ad hominems, mentions of Greece and Sparta, empty slippery slopes, hell . . . Choggie's whole thread here. But we should try the best we can to avoid organizing society on the basis of irrational arguments. If the Bush Administration has taught us nothing else, it has taught us this.

>> ^schmawy:. . . except for the 300 cops.


Do. You. Live. In. SPARTA??