Photos can be so misleading

It seemed a beautiful moment...

But of course the video had to ruin it...



Jailbait! Darn.

Update: The woman, Mayora Tavares, is reportedly 16 while the age of consent in Italy is 14.

So good on them, though it ruins my tactless joke.

Venice from the sky

More lovely pics here.

The Italian Schiavo

Secular Right:

Italy is being wracked by a Terry Schiavo-esque political feeding-tube fight. In 1992, Eluana Englaro, then 21-years-old, was in a serious car accident and struck comatose. Two years later, her doctors declared her condition irreversible. Since then, she has been on feeding tubes in a vegetative state. Last November, Englaro’s father won a court order allowing her feeding tubes to be disconnected, but Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has fought to keep her on life-support. Catholic newspapers accuse the father of wanting to kill his daughter; the Catholic Church has forcefully insisted that the government must keep Englaro alive.

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Waterspout

Zoagli, Italy: