This morning, after the umpteenth news story in three days about the pregnancy of Britney Spears' younger sister, I told my wife I was sick of hearing it and refused to discuss it. But this evening, I saw something that seemed so emblematic about this that I do just have to comment.
Of all the headlines I've read in this year of horrible news, it seems to me that none captures the spirit of the time more than MTV News' Pondering over the legality of a girl getting pregnant. In an article posted Here they ponder the question of the legal culpability the couple bear before the bar of the law.
We must, it seems, criminalize every misdeed, lest someone, somewhere get away with something not wholly acceptable to, well, everyone.