Viva la liberta!

[joanna bujes]

At 02:09 PM 08/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I like to tease Italo-american friends that they shouldn't celebrate Columbus
>Day, which commemorates, after all, a man who initiated the slaughter of
>indigenous peoples. I propose Larry da Ponte as another alternative, or
>Guglielmo Marconi, who lived in Staten Island, or even Madonna Ciccone,
>though she's only half Italian.

Ugh, ugh, ugh. HOW can you mention Madonna and Da Ponte in the same 
sentence. Ugh.

Joanna Bujes