Normally, I like to keep this page strictly about music, but this article in the Times got me worked up into a tizzy this morning. Maybe it kind of fits with the theme too, since we often write about music in the context of teen angst.
In a nutshell, a boy who seemed to be the neighborhood bully taunted and threw water balloons at a girl. The girl picked up a rock and threw it, not expecting to hit him. The boy was hit in the face, where he was left with a cut around the eye. The girl ran back to his place to apologize, but no one was there. When she returned home, the cops were waiting for her. She was later charged with a felony.
I guess this is supposed to teach kids that if you are bullied, you should just turn the other cheek because no one ever should try to teach an asshole a lesson. Next thing you know, a troop of 12-year-old Girl Scouts will be charged with felony vandalism for T.P.ing the houses of boys who try to look up skirts.