We now have an easy solution to those priest sex scandals.

Lower the age of consent.

[V-8 moment.]

Just think of the trouble it would have saved if the Paul Shanleys of the world could have simply said of their inamorati: "Hey, he's legal."

I eagerly await (without breath-holding) Rosa Parks' denunciation of this developing trend. Oh, hell--I'll supply the response for you: "same sex marriage will tame all these chickenhawking impulses and turn them into Ozzie and Harriet Redux. And if it doesn't work out, the kid'll get alimony."

Hey--isn't Forever Eden on?

[Thanks to Jeff Miller for the link.]