Berlusconi Fucking Dead People Too

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1201885/Italians-finally-talking-Berlusconis-sex-tapes-sex-bit-talks-30-ancient-tombs-estate.html (Also enjoy the Daily Mail's liberal use of pictures of Italian models in a story that is only tangentially related to them)

OK, not really. But continuing from Dave's post about Italy, I'll put this up too. Unfortunately I'm massively hung over so I won't be typing too much. Basically, some archaeologists in Italy are takin' it to Berlusconi for having not reported that his ginormous (or should I say va-ginormous? Hi-yo!) Sardinian estate was built upon unreported Punic (Carthaginian) tombs, which, if you're into such things, is very bad because anything Carthaginian outside Tunisia is extremely rare.

But I guess the archaeology isn't really the important thing here; what's important is that left-wing Italians are grasping at any straws they can to get people to care about his horrible corruption (not to mention his many other fine qualities.) The thing is, as one blogger points out, "in Italy, who doesn't live over something 'old'?" And it's true. The Italian farmer's worst nightmare is that something big and old pops up from the dirt while they're plowing, because it means the archaeologists swoop in, dig up their field, and deny them their livelihood for a season (though they are compensated, of course). So it doesn't seem to that, despite what the Daily Mail says, regular Italians will care much (the only people quoted in the article are directly involved with the left-controlled Ministry of Culture). But, regardless, this just goes to show that the man is horrible, at least in my eyes.