Blog: Word The Cat

-- In case you didn't hear, Silvio Berlusconi (the billionaire Italian prime minister who owns half the country's media) got mashed in the face with a miniature statue of Milan's cathedral. No doubt he will play politically on this (probably quite successfully), provided as he is with a voice considerably stronger than the Roma people who have received compulsory fingerprinting of all adults under his government and intimidation and rabid scapegoating from his party. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they've received a bit more than a few broken teeth as a result of his [...]