Turns out that getting smacked in the face with a souvenir statuette was probably the best thing to happen to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a rather difficult year: He's back over 50% in popularity polls, and his allies are hoping to use the sympathy he's engendered to pass legislation that will once again make him virtually immune from prosecution. You can almost understand why the conspiracy theorists are coming out in force.
Monday, December 21, 2009
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I swear I see the Virgin Mary in the bloodsplatter on his face.
Gross. Weak and cringing. Just lost well over 50% of my remaining respect for a once-great civilization.
This is why it was so important that the shoe missed Bush.
I am not going to lie--witnessing his agility made my disapproval rating drop about one tenth of a percent for about the time it took my tea to steep.
I admire you for the courage it took to admit this.
Wait, I thought the conspiracy was that the fascists helped the lunatic set fire to the Reichstag, not that the lunatic threw a model of the Reichstag at the fascist.