Actor Robert Pastorelli, a former boxer best know for his role as “Eldin Bernecky” on “Murphy Brown,” was found dead in his Hollywood home of a suspected drug overdose. He was 49.

The meaning of life in one act. And to think I wasted six hours watching “Angels in America” on the outside chance I’d get to see a robed Roy Cohn playing the harp. Or a confused Ethel Rosenberg exclaim, “a dingo ate my baby!” …Speaking of baby-eating, I’m working to update to my blogroll. To do this, I had to take down a couple of my link lists. But they

Uh, you peddle condiments, honey. Let’s not go confusing steak sauce dividends with political perspicuity, okay? Now go fix me up a burger. And hold the ketchup.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four Democratic California lawmakers on Monday proposed giving teenagers as young as 14 the right to vote in a move that would make the often trailblazing state the first in the nation to do so. Under the proposal, youths under the current legal voting age of 18 would be able to cast ballots in state and local elections only, although their vote would not have full

God bless freakin’ America.

Well this is quite novel: a defense of molestation on the grounds of “Otherness.” Were he not dead, Eddie Said would be so proud! The meat: […]when asked whether a white priest fondling an Alaska Native boy would have an impact, positive or negative, Loyens [a retired Reverend who holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology] said the Athabascan Indian and Yupik Eskimo cultures were “fairly loose” on sexual matters. He

Actor Paul Winfield has died of a heart attack. He was 62. From Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia, reprinted on IMDB: This imposing black actor first came to the attention of TV audiences opposite Diahann Carroll on the sitcom “Julia” from 1968 to 1971, and he’s done some of his best work on the small screen, especially as civil-rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in “King,” a 1978 miniseries. Winfield’s

Overheard in the men’s room immediately following a Fort Lauderdale fundraiser, at which the Junior Senator from Massachusetts waxed internationalist: Campaign Strategist: “Gee, Senator, I don’t know. I mean, all that stuff about having the tacit support of a bunch of foreign leaders? And then not even naming any of them? That might have been a bit much…” Kerry: “Well, there’s Jacques, of course. And Gerhard. And that little Korean

Great news, this. Although I suppose this means I can’t get away with suing Peter Jackson for damages the next time I’m arrested bitch slapping some newly-outed nerd who insists on slipping the word “hobbit” into every third sentence. Count your blessings, wizardhumper.

For about an hour Friday night, [Harvard] Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan