https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/doge/ Recent content in Doge on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:28:38 -0500 https://crystal.castle.cc/2011/01/23/politics-in-italy-electing-the-doge/ Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:28:38 -0500 https://crystal.castle.cc/2011/01/23/politics-in-italy-electing-the-doge/ <p><a href="http://padovacultura.padovanet.it/musei/archivio/busto_del_doge%20_Renier.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://padovacultura.padovanet.it/musei/archivio/busto_del_doge%20_Renier.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="400" /></a></p> <p>After football, one of the greatest past-times in Italy is bemoaning the state of Italian politics. After all, there is nothing quite like the mixture of sheepish chagrin and amusement one feels when hearing that class-act Prime Minster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi">Berlusconi</a> has been caught with yet another outrageous quip, like &#8220;I am a man who works hard all day long and if I sometimes look at some good-looking girl, it&#8217;s better to be fond of pretty girls than to be gay.&#8221; (You can see the news conference <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RX_ppWuRg">here</a>&#8230;and hear the resulting applause from the audience.)</p>