The purpose of sending the eight subjects of the most important sociological experiment of our time overseas was to see how they would interact with a culture that is completely foreign to their own. So far, all anyone wants to do is interact with each other.
Finally, we get a glimpse of all the death and destruction the guidos of Jersey Shore bring to Florence for their fourth season. It's like the Fellini movie that we always wanted. It's time to get excited, everyone!
It's a sad day for all Italians. Wax figure Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he won't seek another term in 2013, but instead with act as a "patron" to his successor, Justice Minister Angelino Alfano, which should really help Alfano's case. And, at 77, Berlusconi can finally begin to focus on his private life.
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is pretty pissed off that his friend and Mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti lost in the first round of elections to a candidate from the left. So he did what any racist European leader would do when faced with a decline in popularity: he turned on minorities in his country. Berlusconi wrote this on his website:
An official from the University of Florida sent out an email to the students at the school's study abroad program in Florence threatening to oust anyone caught partying with Jersey Shore cast members. That sounds a little harsh.
This bus driver in Rome was suspended after he was videotaped using two cell phones while steering his bus with his elbow. Italians! Always talking with their hands.
Two earthquakes hit southern Spain in quick succession today, resulting in several deaths and widespread damage. This comes on the day some predicted an earthquake would destroy Rome, which resulted in thousands fleeing the city. Looks like the prophesy was only off by a few countries. Let's hope those exiled Italians didn't head to Spain.
Is Rome going to be destroyed in a massive earthquake tomorrow, May 11? According to a rumored prophesy, yes! And so, "thousands of people are reported to be staying out of Rome for the next few days."
After having to postpone their trip to film season four of Jersey Shore in Italy late last week because the no-good mayor of Florence yanked their filming permits, the cast is scheduled to go back to their spiritual homeland once again, but they'll just miss the country's hard-partying prime minister.
Italian wax figure Silvio Berlusconi was in court today facing allegations of tax fraud — he had the day off from the other trial for allegedly playing "bunga bunga" with child prostitutes — when he invoked the death of Osama bin Laden as a reason to let him off the hook: "There is something which is not going in the right direction for a democracy to have government leaders humiliated by having to spend hours in court while these important international events are taking place."
Someone who claims to have penetrated the hallowed halls of Olive Garden's Culinary Institute of Tuscany says the school is hardly the MIT of Ravioli Sciences touted in commercials. In fact, there's no school at all.
Florence, Italy will play host to our eight favorite guidos from Jersey Shore for the series' fourth season, and now the city's mayor of has issued a litany of rules the show has to follow as it takes the circus abroad. These are going to be impossible to follow.
Italy's greatest self-tanning sex fiend, Silvio Berlusconi, yesterday traveled to the island of Lampedusa to encourage xenophobia and to scare African migrants back to where they came from. He even said he was buying a vacation home there because the island is so fucking sexy. But aside from promising to tackle his self-made immigration problem — North Africans fleeing violence perpetrated by Berlusconi's dictator buddies — the old man found some time to joke around with the island's lovely ladies, according to the Daily Mail:
