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July 1, 2008

Questions All Too Rarely Asked

Does Obama loom like the god-king Xerxes?

A: No, actually.

Via The Poorman Institute.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 7:13 am, Filed under: Main

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9 Responses to “Questions All Too Rarely Asked”

  1. Comment by X. Trapnel —
    July 1, 2008 @ 8:43 am

    Reading that “modcon” post should be funny, but it just horrifies me. The world has moved beyond parody. Ugh.

  2. Comment by X. Trapnel —
    July 1, 2008 @ 8:50 am

    I love how “ModCon” uses as his final stirring words–intended as a battle-cry, a promise to the vile leftists–the lines that in the movie, IIRC, belonged to the Corrupted Legislator as he raped the Virtuous Queen. And by “love” I mean “feel revolted by.”

  3. Comment by Doug T —
    July 1, 2008 @ 9:04 am

    All I can do is laugh at that post. Taking it seriously would just be too depressing.

    Also, X., nice to see another Anthony Powell fan knocking around.

  4. Comment by joe —
    July 1, 2008 @ 10:02 am

    I can remember when the Cheetos crowd was using Lord of the Rings references.

    Mordor arises! You’re all wormtongues

    How did it come to this?

    Idiots.

  5. Comment by Happy Jack —
    July 1, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

    I’m no historian, but didn’t the Spartans like to touch little boys in their special places?

  6. Comment by quasibill —
    July 1, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

    These Greek city-states are showing the first stirrings of real democratic governance. A much greater percentage of people in Greece enjoy true freedom than in any of the neighboring lands. And it is about to fall under the yoke of a dictatorship.

    Is ignorance of history a pre-requisite to being a “modern conservative?” Or maybe I’m just being too kind – maybe it isn’t ignorance at all…

  7. Comment by Patrick D —
    July 1, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

    I’m amused that this crowd consistently needs to direct the conversation away from reality to some irrelevant point in history or even a piece of fiction in order to make a point.

    My favorite bit of nonsense is the assertion that the people who brought you feminism and are currently pushing for gay marriage are somehow in league with people who believe it is their duty to slap burkahs on women and kill homosexuals.

  8. Comment by kishnevi —
    July 1, 2008 @ 9:46 pm

    Given that the real Spartans were a militarized society who emphasized what we can euphemistically call male bonding, who depended for their agricultural needs on a permanent caste of slaves which was originally ethnic in origin, and who organized their society to lessen the actual impact of family bonds, and who after the Persian Wars set out to dominate the rest of the Grecian world–you’d think that neocons would try to find another parallel to modern America. But I guess in their eyes on the last fact–the successful quest to dominate the rest of Greece–was the important one.

  9. Comment by Bruce Baugh —
    July 2, 2008 @ 7:48 am

    Kishnevi, given just how many prominent Republican leaders turn out to be gay or given to (sometimes downright bizarre) fetishistic practice…Teresa Nielsen Hayden once commented that the real Republican view on homosexuality is apparently “It’s much too good for the common folk.”

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