Ya gotta love this -- Italian Prime Minister and playboy-clown extraordinaire Silvio Berlusconi just spent a bundle of taxpayer money to add new body parts to an ancient statue of Mars and Venus:
Officials confirmed that a fake penis and hand had been added to Mars, the god of war and a fake hand had been added to Venus, the goddess of love after a consultation with Berlusconi's personal architect Mario Catalano.
Matteo Orfini, shadow culture spokesman for the opposition Democratic Left, stormed: 'This is absolute madness. It's as if we are back in the Middle Ages when the ruling regimes did whatever they wanted.'
Well, I guess it's better than adding "modesty curtains" at the Department of Justice. (Though I think one can take issue with the Middle Ages bit, as we can see the ruling regimes doing whatever they want nowadays as well.)
