She was in on the surprise from the beginning.

In Rihanna's new music video for her song S&M, images flash on the screen of the singer being taped to a wall, fondling the plastic while a bunch of reporters look on with disgust. Clips of article headlines flash to the beat with quotes like Daddy Issues? as if to insinuate that Rihanna's wall-humping behavior is a normal form of self-expression and not a result of emotional instability. The fact that teen girls all over the world will watch this video is frightening, to say the least.

There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk.

For example, the statistician M. Schwartner remarked: The ordinary Hungarian from the middle and lower classes is not very responsive to the whistles and cries of the heteroglots surrounding him...