A piece in Metro Santa Cruz begins with this interesting quote:
“We are the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta.”
–Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
I guess you can take the man out of the sword-and-sandal, but you can’t take the sword-and-sandal out of the man …
rogueclassicism 
Will the power of California eventually subdue the ideas and replace Gov. Schwarzenegger with 30 tyrants?