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As if there isn't already enough stuff going on in the world . . . now teens want to screw their little brains out in the backseat of dad's car, the couch while little Suzie Rottencrotch is babysitting, or any other place that conveniently presents itself.

Ok, so things haven't really changed have they? Teens were fucking like rabbits when I was a teen and I'm sure they'll be doing it long after I'm gone.

What has changed is attitudes.

According to The Washington Post more teen girls are using the rhythm method to keep from getting pregnant and more teens think it's ok for a teen girl to have a baby.

I don't know the stats off the top of my head, but isn't the rhythm method a little risky? From what I've heard unless a woman is pretty predictable there always is the chance she could be wrong meaning the chances of having a baby are greatly improved.

Of course, if you look at the second half of what was found, I imagine the chance of having a kid isn't all that bad since everybody's really cool with it.

I'm like totally, WTF?!

Teens should be the last people in the world ok with having a kid and not being married. You need at least two incomes anymore to have kids. How will you possibly afford an XBox 360 and new diapers for Junior if you are a single teen mom? Given that you are nice and young, you might have a better chance of being a MILF, but that will only last so long.

Best to wait until later to have kids.

What could be more fun that browsing the stacks of books, magazines and other intellectually stimulating resources than choosing to satisfy your carnal curiosities in one of the library's study rooms?

Apparently a couple teens decided to concede to the raging hormones and throw caution to the wind since they had their own private study room at the city library.

It never ceases to amaze me the foolishness of people, but hey I can't say the thought never crossed my mind during any one of my study sessions at the library in my youth.

What makes this blog-worthy isn't necessarily the two teenagers sexing it up in the study room, but rather the debate over a few books that currently have homes at the library and the group of Puritans looking to burn them. Evidently, the very proximity to books like, The Joy of Sex, is enough to drive young teens to want to have sex. It has nothing at all to do with TV, society, peer pressure, plain old curiosity or even biology. Perhaps after thumbing through books such as that, they lost all semblance of self control and found the nearest venue to practice their new-found sexual knowledge? At least that's what the Puritans would like to have us believe.

I doubt it. I've owned that book and from what I remember it actually promoted a little more intimacy than that which can be found in library study rooms.

Maybe those kids need a good, old-fashioned abstinence program to get their heads screwed on straight? Yeah, no pun intended.

I was going to write a short, although sarcastic, piece about yet another image of the Virgin Mary appearing in a doctor's window in Springfield, MA. I found this via Google News. I was taken to the Boston Globe's website and landed at the article which described the turn of events. I had hoped to see a picture of the image, instead the lead image above the text of the article was that of a crowd of awe-inspired onlookers.

After examining the page for a few seconds I found the image gallery for this particular news event. It consisted of six images that recounted a few other Virgin Mary image sightings in varying settings.

Here's where it got interesting, and is the real point of this post. Being at the final image in the series I wasn't sure if the first image in the series was the one that the article referred to. So I clicked on what I expected should take me to the first image in the series.

But I didn't get to look at it. Instead, I was prompted to login. Lame . . .

There's been no shortage of news that conventional news outlets are losing profits. Even the local paper where I live has raised their rates citing increased costs. Has your local newspaper raised their rates lately?

Previously when I linked to local news stories I also had to add that they still hadn't quite gotten used to the fact that they really should consider NOT forcing people to login just to read the news article. Perhaps they got the message. You can read the news without logging in. Of course they did re-design their site and improve it such that they can now load even more ads of which some are really, really ugly. How many ads does the online version of your paper have?

As much as "The Press" wants to throw around the adage that "the people have a right to know" you would think that they would be able to wrap their head around the fact that they shouldn't need to login to exercise that right. Do you have to login for any particular function of your local paper? To read the article or view photographs?

Local news outlets just aren't getting it. They don't understand the Internet and much like the music industry, they are clinging to a dying model in which they grossly overcharge for classifieds and ad space on their online and print versions. Have you paid for a classified ad lately? How much was it? Did it actually pay off for you?

I think this topic deserves a little more research and will most likely be something I'll post about again in the near future. Anything you think deserves mentioning?