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[senoritafish]

As I write this, John is watching " Rise and Fall of the Spartans," which is supposed to be on all week on the History channel. I'm thinking these people are the inspiration for just about all of the war-like peoples in popular science fiction. Be they Saiyans or Klingons, their societies seem to be very similar. Spend your life in training and die a glorious death (at least if you're a male). Men could only get their name on a headstone if they died in battle, women only if they died in childbrth (well, Saiyans have that beat, at least).

I can see I'm in for a long week.