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

From ABC News comes this sad bit of news: A body found in East River may be that of writer / performer Spalding Gray. The body was so badly decomposed that the face was unrecognizable. Police reportedly could only say for certain is that the deceased was a white man. The only piece of clothing that could be identified was a pair of black corduroy pants. When Gray disappeared January

No, the joke is not that it’s possessed (which is more common than you might think — and I have several thigh scars from a particulary evil can of Mountain Dew to prove it), but rather that it’s already received 14 bids! Not that I’m telling anybody how to spend his or her disposable income, mind you. But were I to consider dropping more than a ten spot on Coke,

Where Teddy Rall is concerned, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And I can prove it, too: Having learned of Ted’s being fired by the NYT online (thanks, Jim, and God bless us all, everyone), I decided to search the protein wisdom archives for some of the gentle criticisms I’d leveled at ol’ Rralllph-y Boy over the years. Y’know, because I like to pile on. Anyway,