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ghoststrider.livejournal.comIn the interest of not making this a 100% US politics community, I would like to turn your attention to Italy, home of the mafia, soccer, good wine and great food, and a womanizing prime minister. (No, Bill Clinton didn't get a job there, he's running the State Department back home. I think.)
Anyways, Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy and Her Gorgeous Leg, has long been a womanizer, and usually he got away with it. But not now. Apparently he's had a "relationship" with an 17-year old model, and when he gave her an expensive necklace at her 18th birthday, his wife said, "Dammit, Sil, I can't take it anymore. I'm divorcing you!" (Apparently he never went to his kids' 18th birthdays...) The move has caused rampant speculation, for once, compounded by the fact that the prime minister has blocked publication of photos taken at a party at his villa. Meanwhile, allies of the prime minister have made disparaging comments about his wife, no doubt in an effort to shift attention from Mr. Berlusconi and make it look like he's the victim. (And for another newslink, here is this story which goes into a lot of background about Mr. Berlusconi, and reveals him for the...well I don't what he is. You be the judge.)
To which I say: who the heck gives a damn?
I mean, why are the private lives of people being splashed all over the front page of Irish Times, Daily Mail, The Times, and La Repubblica? (Well, I hear the LR hates Silvio, so...) Why do we care so much about this? Why should we? (It should be noted that the age of consent in Italy is 16.) It's none of our business. We don't like the private lives of our families being exposed to the world, so why should we feel the opposite about politicians? Because they are politicians? Why? They're still people, just as dumb and prone to having erections as you and me.
It's the Clinton scandal all over again. Why are we so interested? Why do we care? Why are we perfectly willing to violate their privacy when we so cherish our own?
And now, to return you back to your regular scheduled programming, I hereby give you:
(It's as if they think it's a bad thing.)
Anyways, Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy and Her Gorgeous Leg, has long been a womanizer, and usually he got away with it. But not now. Apparently he's had a "relationship" with an 17-year old model, and when he gave her an expensive necklace at her 18th birthday, his wife said, "Dammit, Sil, I can't take it anymore. I'm divorcing you!" (Apparently he never went to his kids' 18th birthdays...) The move has caused rampant speculation, for once, compounded by the fact that the prime minister has blocked publication of photos taken at a party at his villa. Meanwhile, allies of the prime minister have made disparaging comments about his wife, no doubt in an effort to shift attention from Mr. Berlusconi and make it look like he's the victim. (And for another newslink, here is this story which goes into a lot of background about Mr. Berlusconi, and reveals him for the...well I don't what he is. You be the judge.)
To which I say: who the heck gives a damn?
I mean, why are the private lives of people being splashed all over the front page of Irish Times, Daily Mail, The Times, and La Repubblica? (Well, I hear the LR hates Silvio, so...) Why do we care so much about this? Why should we? (It should be noted that the age of consent in Italy is 16.) It's none of our business. We don't like the private lives of our families being exposed to the world, so why should we feel the opposite about politicians? Because they are politicians? Why? They're still people, just as dumb and prone to having erections as you and me.
It's the Clinton scandal all over again. Why are we so interested? Why do we care? Why are we perfectly willing to violate their privacy when we so cherish our own?
And now, to return you back to your regular scheduled programming, I hereby give you:
