The Paradise Lost of our times.

I think you are getting the bible mixed up with Paradise Lost.  It's a very common mistake.

Not really.  You could grant the Greeks "democracy" of a sort I suppose (they did invent the word, after all) but they also lived in a society where slaves outnumbered free men something like 10 to 1.  And the Romans were, if anything, worse in that sense.  Ending slavery wasn't even a serious thought until…

My ears are burning.

I don't think you could create a fictional character that would more fully personify the word "douchebag" than Ryan Lochte.

Yeah he's like my grandpa but sweet and gay instead of straight and an asshole.

Yeah I laughed at the GG clip.  I hadn't watched that show since I was a kid but it turns out it's still funny.

I'm a non-believer and think that religion in general has outlived its use, but Christianity was a overall a good thing for mankind.  All of those liberal/democratic/egalitarian ideas that exist in the West can be traced back to christianity.

Hold on to that feeeeeliiiinnn…

This is apparently a tv show that was on Nickelodeon during the time I was oblivious to what was on Nickelodeon (roughly the age of 13 until the time my daughter learned to work the remote control)

Protip:  if you get a bunch of compliments on your clothes, you probably look like a clown to the majority of people.

Those high heeled boots are just too much.

Funny thing about those old money WASP types: they don't spend all that much on clothes.  Don't get me wrong, they spend more than you or I do.  And they will spend a lot on an article of clothing, like a pair of 600 dollar shoes or a $7000 bespoke suit, but they wear them shits for decades.  They don't go on $10,000…

If that human being was Tarkovsky's Former AD, then I can see it.

Rich and stupid.

Bateman wouldn't be caught dead in those horribly tacky clothes.

wrong thread

The thing is, if you ask a Rand fan, people who don't like her books are just ideological.  But the fact is, if it weren't for the ideology, her books would have been mocked when they were first published and would have been forgotten a long time ago.

They basically have to condense the speeches, because the big final radio address, if done in its entirety, would take something in the range of 4 hours.  In any other book, the idea of the world sitting listening in rapt attention as a crazy person rants for 4 hours about how they are all scum would be the most…

On the other hand, it's more disturbing in its rapiness, and it also basically says that its ok to blow up a housing project if you got your little feelings hurt by having your artistic vision diluted.  I'm going to call it a wash.