Making The Onion Superfluous, noticed by George Zachar
The Decadent Whims of the World’s Wackiest Despots
In Spain they have Pamplona’s running of the bulls; in Swaziland they have the Reed Dance. Instead of nervous townsfolk running through the streets pursued by temperamental bovines, 50,000 nervous, bare-breasted virgins frolic in a stadium before their hot-blooded King Mswati III.