[Behind Liberal Lines]

Interestingly enough, for you mavens of media bias, this "editorial" appeared in the "local news" (not editorial) portion of this Upstate NY newspaper.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump

[Peach]

Just saw an article in USA Today on Monday that physicians have discovered that men have hormones that affect their emotional well-being and stability AS MUCH or more than women are affected by hormones. Right now the men who go nuts and kill their families aren't given the benefit of the doubt, like women are, but that's going to change as a legal defense in the future. It's bad news.

[theoutsideman]

What a complete load of horse shit. Look, it is the act and only the act. The reason for the act is irrelavent. In this case the act is the vicious murder of five defenseless children. Justice demands the death penalty. You may cast a deaf ear to all this other nonsense.

[NativeNewYorker]

The author seems to be in the birthing biz:

http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/news01/ithaca_newspaper_article01.htm

http://www.geocities.com/rasmama/

This is all well-and-good, but I still think the penalty for non-self-defense, pre-meditated murder should be swift capital punishment.

[Faraday]

In clinical trials, the death penalty has been shown to cure postpartum depression, 93% of the the time, +/- 4%.

[SerpentDove]

Translation:

The backwoods, torch-and-pitchfork-wielding TEXANS (you know, the place where the dragging of blacks behind trucks is a sport more popular than high school football)...

Well, THOSE ignorant hayseeds, who are obviously as smart and sophisticated as the rest of us, especially me...are going to meet out their barbaric form of "justice" on this fine, innocent victim of a fancy-schmancy psychosis they can't even pronounce.

Obviously, to the wisest among us (especially me), the truth is obvious. Andrea Yates is making a statement. It's sort of like burning her bra, only instead of burning her bra, she's drowning her children. YOU GO, GIRL!

(etc...etc...PUKE!)

[the]

Here's a bit of reading, from a Central New York author, that might be of interest to some of those on this thread that would excuse the actions of an "insane" person.

Insanity : The Idea and Its Consequences
by Thomas Szasz

Link to sample pages, excerpt from first chapter