Watch out folks, I'm on a rampage tonight (PMSing, sorry, it happens). Mods, please move if this does not belong here, but I need to talk about this.

Andrea Yates is the Texas woman who drowned her 5 children in a bathtub. She was just found not guilty by reason of insanity.

I have a bug up my butt about this because 18 years ago, I released my son to be raised by financially and emotionally stable people. I didn't have more children. His adoptive mother tracked me down 2 years ago and we slowly have built a relationship, but the fact remains that I missed the first 16 years of his life, and I'm never getting those back.

Andrea Yates slaughtered her children, and yet she's not going to prison. There was a teenager in Milwaukee a couple of years ago who hid her pregnancy (like to know how that happens) from her parents, gave birth, wrapped the baby in a plastic grocery bag, and left it in a public toilet in a park in the middle of January. She didn't go to jail either, although she was tried as an adult.

So listen up -- when my family pisses me off one too many times and I do them in, y'all tell the jury I was a regular here, and I'll have my pdoc testify I've been on psych meds for a million billion years and done some time in a mental hospital, and the jury will let me off because they feel sorry for me, k?

I'm sorry. I just don't think it should work that way. It offends the crap out of my sense of justice.

CB