Every couple of weeks a nude picture scandal pops up on the internet, and still this nation is filled with stupid teenagers and twentysomethings who think it’s a great idea to take naked photos in digital format.

Invest in a Polaroid camera, make the trip to Rite Aid, buy a lock box; seriously folks, these things come back to get you. The internet is like one big elephant that never forgets and, to mix metaphors, it’s always in the room during naked photos.

As people who live on the internet, our lives have become constantly “on the record” in our friends eyes. We get lots of “don’t blog about this” or “don’t put this on the internet” and rightfully so.

Because otherwise things like this happen:

“Someone in her home state of Indiana is shopping nude pictures of [American Idol contestant] Amanda [Overmyer]-and they’ve been offered big money….If those pictures pop up on the Internet, Idol will have another huge scandal on it’s hands.”

The sad thing is that if this rumor is true and there are pictures, we can expect to see them within the next two weeks.

We’ve said it before about Idol scandals, and we’ll say it again: on a show that depends on the audience voting, any publicity is good publicity. That’s why we get constant Idol scandals that pop up.

If Fox can stomach the blow from critics who take shots at the show for lax background checks and planting contestants, then they will take the hit and watch curious bystanders keep caring while the active voters keep voting.

We’re stuck on spin-cycle here, except this spin cycle has the promise of nipples. Which we’re all in favor of as long as Amanda didn’t have white girl dreds at the time.

We have Suicide Girls for that fix.