I love Italy.

For all the "wrong" reasons, yet again ... :-(

Agreed that spies and doublecrosses and murky-mysteries and creepycrawlies in the woodwork are helluva lot more fun than decent, efficient social-democratic decorum, OK?  ...but grrrrrr of course Italian national-imagewise they're even worse than our usual stereotype of spaghetti-mandolins-donkeys-and-Vesuvius-with-closeup-of-Sophia-Loren's-decolleté I spend half my waking life screeching about!  So how about some decent coverage of Italian ultra-classy, hi-tech engineering... and in particular our aerospace contrib. to Galileo, and/or Italian hydroelectrics, laser surgery...???

Nah.. all non-existent...grrrrrr  

(DRAT!! in fact double-drat and blushes!! as despite all my Italo-chauvism I've just realised not only the Scaramella-story "as such" but my very-own recent Scaramella ET-post's truly weird google-prominence have further contributed towards Italy's current/renewed Borgia-type national image... grrrrr... booohooo...)

 ... ah well... :-(    

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami