Those weeks were quite interesting for our government: Veltroni, actual Rome major, made a law during Marini temporary government to allow italian major to run for elections. You know, Rome is such a small city that it can really run on its legs and it's really sad you can't both take money from being a major and from running elections at the same time. Ad-personam laws. Deja-vu.
On the other side Berlusconi proposed the roadmap of the first 100 days of his government. Deja-vu, again.
Have you noticed that there's really no difference between left and right any more? During elections, they just talk about big interesting things they'll surely do during their government. Just for sitting in parliament once elected to grab as much money as they can.
Oh, by the way, we entered "par-condicio" elections period so fuck you, all.

From xkcd blag:
"Obama has shown a real commitment to open government. When putting together tech policy (to take an example close to home for xkcd) others might have gone to industry lobbyists. Obama went to Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons (under which xkcd is published) and longtime white knight in the struggle with a broken system over internet and copyright policy."
I've to admit I'm still quite ignoring ongoing USA primaries, apart for a "hey! they've to choose between a female candidate and a black one. how funny could it be for an american?". But that sentence made me wonder, a lot.

Sure, you can say that he probably doesn't really care about CC and he's using it only for some publicity stunt but, hell, he DID search for it. I doubt any of our politicians will ever known about CC or can figure out what it does (except for "Rosa nel pugno" party, maybe, they were quite tech savvy during the last elections).

pdf ahead: we're +3 points from freedom
I know that many italian comedians[1] have already extensively covered this topic, but I always want to take a closer look at it. Please read pages 116 and 117 (125 and 126 of the pdf).

btw: where is the link to that pdf? I found it digging and playing around with links...

[1] isn't it interesting that no media talk about it, but I've to discover this through banned italian comedians?