Badonkadonks, Ta-Tas and Bunga Bunga

Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni is in the news for rinsing her hands of longtime, live-in boyfriend Andrea Giambruno, caught prospecting for group sex. Reportage has reached again for bunga bunga, which keeps this reliable trope of male-hormonal culture merrily cohabiting with family values.

That old Boccaccian satyr Berlusconi (RIP)
was patron saint of bonking and baloney (QED).
(JMN)

Mattia Ferraresi comments on the nepo-incestual tenor of power in Italy, “where politics, media and business interests are toxically entwined”:

More than half a century ago, an aphorism commonly attributed to the journalist Leo Longanesi captured the problem: “The revolution will never take place in Italy, because we all know each other.” The same is seemingly true for functional government.

(Mattia Ferraresi, “Italy’s Prime Minister Broke Up With Her Boyfriend. It’s Actually Quite a Big Deal,” New York Times, 11-1-23)

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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

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