Lindsay Lohan has caused the world a lot of confusion in her relationship with Samantha Ronson. The gossip pundits have been going absolutely bananas trying to figure out what's been going on. Is she straight? Is she a lesbian? (Hint: She's bisexual.) I'm not sure what planet you'd have to be living on to be unable to figure that one out, but as the world at large is having difficulty seeing anything other than the black and white options of this particular issue, I figured I'd give y'all a helping hand. You're welcome. If you're still trying to figure out where babies come from, I'm afraid your on your own on that one. (Hint: Sarah Palin's womb of infinite fecundity.)

Now that's out of the way, we can focus on the real issue at hand here, which is Samantha and Lindsay bikinis. If you click on the pictures they expand, giving you the sort of perspective that is needed on a situation like this one.

Are they a real item? Is this just a publicity stunt designed to pump life into Lindsay's failing career? We may never know. What we do know is that Lindsay and Samantha have been close friends for many years, and during Lindsay's days of wild drinking and legendary promiscuity, Samantha was often there to scrape her off the floor and put her in a car home.

Since the Ronson/Lohan relationship became established, we haven't seen Lindsay drunk and miserable, we haven't seen her flashing her private parts to the world, and what has come out of her mouth has been credible and lucid. Though her career hasn't bounced back to where it was, she seems to be making a tidy living by doing cameo appearances on shows like Ugly Betty, and photo shoots for various magazines in which she reclaims her old hotness.

If it is a real relationship, then it would seem that Lindsay has survived the trial by fire of child stardom and emerged out the other side into a stable, monogamous relationship. If it's not a real relationship, then she and Samantha both deserve Oscars for the performances they've been putting on over the past few months.

Of course, at the end of the day, its really none of our business what Samantha and Lindsay do behind closed doors. We must content ourselves with the images snapped by an intrepid photojournalist no doubt posing as a sea lion.