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Hello and welcome to the Double X-Gab Fest for Thursday, June 2nd.

This is the Bunga-Bunga-Botox edition.

I'm Jessica Gross, Double-X managing editor, and I'm here in New York with my fellow editor, Nina Ristoggi.

Hey, Nina.

Hello, Jess.

And joining us in D.C. is Hannah Rosen, Double X, founding editor.

Hey, Hannah.

Hi, guys.

Today we'll be discussing Ariel Levy's fabulous New Yorker piece about Italian Prime Minister Celia Berlusconi and how his dissolute lifestyle is causing a national reckoning among women in Italy.

We'll also be talking about how Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are making serious moves towards declaring their candidacies for president.

And finally, we'll discuss two pieces about aging, one by Naomi Wolf in the Washington Post

and the other by Dominique Browning in the New York Times.

But let's start with Bunga Bunga Berlusconi.

For those of you not following this scandal, the Italian Prime Minister, Sylvia Berlusconi,

is accused of paying for sex from an underage belly dancer named Ruby Rubikori during

one of his quote-unquote Bunga or orgy, it's sort of a loosely defined as orchi

parties at his estate outside of Milan.

And so in this week's New Yorker, Ariel Levy has this long, really

meaty piece about how, about Berlusconi and the impact of this scandal and his generally

loose behavior on Italy. And it sort of gives a lot of background on Berlusconi and sort of where

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