Rush hour in Milan now includes penis ogling. Larger than life David Beckham sports white briefs in a new ad campaign for Armani underwear, and according to my Madrid morning papers, many are wondering whether his bulge is god-given or the fruit of Photoshop.

It’s as huge as his smirking head, too!

Or, is it?

Forget the soothing effects of breakfast in front of a Tiffany’s window, I know where I would peacefully stare while dunking my croissant into coffee.

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Los calzoncillos de Beckham causan un gran revuelo en Milán 20 Minutos

From Madrid’s Metro:

See it all.

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Museo Prado English
Museo Prado Spanish

Men of the Cloth you’ll want to disrobe.

Yet, another gem from the Spanish media:
The Unofficial Vatican Calendar of Hot Priests

He’s on the market, ladies.

If you think I’m sexy, and you want my ‘body politick,’ come on baby let me know, preferably by diplmatic pouch.

Foreign Policy just published the Who’s Who guide for wooing world leaders. We provide you with the list here with our commentary, of course, in italics:

1. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
Authority never looked so good.

2. Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
We remember her dominatrix boots fondly.

3. Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, Dragon King of Bhutan
Make me the Dragon Queen of your medieval kingdom that while charming, will never appear in a Disney movie.

4. Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
She´s been tortured in life and love.

5. Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
Communism is the political system for lovers

Attaché yourself to these studs and studettes before the next coup, election, or personal scandal sinks them beyond your clutches.

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The List: World´s Most Eligible Leaders Foreign Policy

I’ve always wanted to have 6,000 Swarovski crystals individually glued to my naked body over 14 hours. Spanish actress Paz Vega beat me to the itchy privilege for Elle’s Christmas special.

See, the creative and holiday spirit do belong together. The outfit says festive whore-object, or pretty, pretty mine explosion. I mean I usually just hit up other peoples’ closets for my seasonal frock, but maybe this year I will Zebra stripe myself with a glue stick and roll around in tinsel instead.

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‘Deslumbra’ Paz Vega con desnudo en Elle El Diario
More ridiculously faked pictures Elle

Run, Persopils, Run into major artistic achievement.

An awful lot relies on these craftily manipulated black and white lines. ‘Persopolis’ tells a girl’s coming of age story against Iran’s revolutionary backdrop all in mostly 2-D animation.

The abstract style effectively conveys super-realistic themes such as war through a child’s eyes, a political exile’s sense of guilt, the senselessness of suffering, and young love lost. Yes, it’s not all too upbeat of a cartoon. But, we aren’t the glassy-eyed audience we were at 8 years-old either, and graphic artist Marjane Sartrapi takes us through her transformation in an endlessly relatable way (even if we haven’t seen dead people.)

I could write a full review, but many people already have, including the Iranian government, which tried to stop it’s screening at Cannes.

Persopolis hits the N.Y. and L.A. on December 25th — but, make this a bleep on your radar, it’s bound to come to a really expensive small theater near you.

(English trailer on Persepolis website, but you’ll get the gist here.)

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Iran Protest ‘Persopolis’ Screening USA Today

Adoption or abduction? Here in Spain, the attempted Chadian orphan kidnapping debacle has been the biggest story by far over the last week.

After today, much of the drama has been deflated since most of the Spanish flight crew has been rescued from what looks like the scariest country ever by Papa Sarkozy himself. The hoopla came after a French NGO tried to take 103 kids from Chad to France for adoption using a Spanish flight crew. Probably not to the zealous NGO’s surprise, many of the orphans had family and weren’t orphaned by the Darfur conflict, and even in Chad you can’t airlift people without documents. But what about our self-righteousness and bribe money?

I can’t help being struck by an issue completely untouched by the press: If I were those kids, would I prefer to go to France? This assumes they will actually be adopted by French families and become citizens, but as important as it is to Spaniards to get their citizens home safe, isn’t it important to consider that these uncared for children, whether they are truly orphans or not, may want an out, as well?