Berlusconi, Everyone Else, Looking Forward To The End Of This Year

Turns out that getting smacked in the face with a souvenir statuette was probably the best thing to happen to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a rather difficult year: He’s back over 50% in popularity polls, and his allies are hoping to use the sympathy he’s engendered to pass legislation that will once again make him virtually immune from prosecution. You can almost understand why the conspiracy theorists are coming out in force.