I'm becoming Italianized.

I like to circulate with real Italians. In the Italian city where I live in autumn and winter, Italians are communists and socialists. Yes, leftists. How refreshing. And I tell them they should be ashamed of some Italian Americans. For having become corrupted by American politics. I cite Antonin Scalia, the associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The most conservative of the nine justices. Seems to me he allows politics to enter into his judicial decisions. Republican-oriented politics. Funny thing, Scalia is becoming more and more Americanized. And I'm becoming more and more Italianized. --Jim Broede