Gossip

Should one avoid gossip? Smile in Olympian detachment at the lives and tribulations of others and move on? Probably. But seeing one of Europe's most worthless politicians (a competitive area obviously) embroiled in a divorce scandal of swine flu size PR proportions does manage to raise the merest of interest, the lightest rubber-kneck frission and a slightest twinge of satisfaction at the public humiliation of Italy's tiny jumping plastic cock of a Head of State.

I'm afraid, I might have to keep following this. . . the story that is, not the tiny jumping plastic cock as metaphor or, indeed, thing.