I know that my Victorian compadres are on vacation and I am technically the one to be holding down the fort, but unfortunately I have been overwhelmed by the current project I am dealing with this week which has resulted in a lack of posts. Sorry about that. Although I am personally stuck in the 2015-2030 timeframe until tomorrow afternoon, here are a couple of contemporary newspieces that you might find interesting/worth discussing in my absence.
First is a Slate article entitled Army for Hire which reviews two books on private security companies (formerly known as PMCs) including the latest from our other Bob, RYP.
Second is a piece on a Muslim leader in Zanzibar who says a party in the honour of Zanzibar-born singer Freddie Mercury must be stopped because he was gay and “violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle.” The leader went on to say that’s “why he was branded a Queen.”
Now you’re just taking credit for other people’s work, man!
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Nick added these pithy words on 01 Sep 06 at 2:59 pmHo, the irony! Gay-frontman-led Queen were first Western rock-group to be released in Ayatollah-led Iran (Incidentally, Mercury, born Farokh Bulsara, was a Zoroastrian Parsi whose family came from Bombay. Bulsara Snr was in the British Colonial Service.)
