Now, we can only speculate as to why a certain GrodsReader was Googling for stories about the rugby league (don’t worry, I don’t know what that is either) player who’s owned up to having group sex with a New Zealand woman, but the search results returned to him have either broken open a sensational news scoop or revealed an embarrassing balls-up in the SMH news room.

Look a little closer.

Isn’t that Bristol Palin? What was she doing in New Zealand seven years ago?

(Thanks to reader Possum.)

I’m really confused.

Remember former VP Republican candidate Sarah Palin? Of course you do.

Remember her 17 year old daughter Bristol Palin hitting the headlines when it was revealed she was pregnant? Of course you do.

Remember how it’s really obvious that abstinence clearly doesn’t work, and that Bristol is a really public example of that? Of course you do.

So why the hell is Bristol now going around urging teens in America to abstain from sex? She should know by now abstinence is NOT THE ANSWER.

It didn’t work for her, did it? And the abstinence-only program aggressively pushed by religious nutters during Dubya’s tenure has been a dismal failure. When US public health officials are expecting 750,000 teen pregnancies in the US this year, you just know that abstinence-only messages aren’t getting through to teens.

I really had thought, perhaps naively, that Bristol would draw on her own experiences and maybe start publicly speaking out against the foolhardy abstinence-only mindset and argue for US federal funds to be better spent on sex education (as opposed to or in addition to abstinence-only programs).

Then again, her mother is Sarah Palin. I can’t help but wonder…