Iran – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018

Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.

A Dutch Polichinel on a buffalo in 1856 (2018-02-01 18:10).

She’s got me by the balls

Castration is still legitimate justification for the cancellation of a marriage in Iran. But is there any restriction on DIY? “Khomeini concludes that a man may have intercourse with a girl under nine years old and divorce her without restriction,” so it would seem most unfair if that exit route were precluded. Danton having a…

Paradise and town-planning

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.