[BRIEF NOTE] Elsewhere on Livejournal

[rfmcdonald]

Catching up after a weekend away is always difficult; I hope I've not neglected anyone.

• satyadasa observes that the hateful Hindutva right-wing nationalist movement in India is rather inconsistent: If it wants India to return to its pre-Islamic ways, why not also to pre-Islamic models of sexuality?


• optimussven writes about his experience of Armenia. Brief version: Armenia has done very badly indeed out of the collapse of the Soviet system.


• kharin describes, for those of us who can't make London and the Royal Academy, said institution's exhibition on the Turks. He takes particular note of how the Ottoman Empire's relative decline could be detected in the declining quality of its art.

And outside of Livejournal, but commented upon by at least two people on my friends list, apparently Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide.