Spring (give me a) Break

Today is the official start of spring break and the partying is already well under way, as is the annual hand wringing and lamenting of media pundits about “what’s wrong with today’s kids?”

It seems that thousands of spring breakers are drinking to excess and acting stupid. Yes, you read that correctly … this is considered news. Of course, in fairness, the drunken stupidity is simply drawing moralistic headshaking – as though this generation isn’t doing what every generation before them has done. What really has the pundits upset is the breasts! All the young women who are Girls-Gone-Wild-style flashing is this years evidence that today’s kids are more deviant than yesterdays kids. Oh, really?

They say that if you remember the sixties you weren’t there. Well, obviously these pundits were there, because they seem to have forgotten what it was like during the Summer of Love, and at the hundreds of Woodstock-type music festivals that characterized that era. Girls weren’t flashing, they were naked, and so, by the way, were the guys. In fact, it wasn’t unusual to have to step over couples … well … coupling.

So, what’s wrong with today’s kids? I’m gonna have to go with ‘nothing’.