Insanity

Presbyterian Record - Vol. 121 Nbr. 6, June 1997

Insanity of Jesus.

... Can we see that controversy with Jesus played out again and again? Where does the extraordinary power of the faithful life come from? Not from evil, not from insanity, not even from family. It comes from God. That's ...

Brandon Sun, The - April 23, 2009

Borderline Insanity

Napolitano's brief interview with the CBC this week was jaw-dropping confirmation we're dealing with an irrational senior U.S. official who can't differentiate between a secure border linking the world's largest trading partners and one that's a giant sucking sound for jobs going south and what has been described as an 'invasion' of desperate Mexicans illegally sneaking north. When friends on an annual golf getaway crossed at the 1,000 Islands, we joined a bunch of others in getting a major ...

Broken Pencil - Nbr. 41, October 2008

The Lonely Insanity of B-Seventeen

B-Seventeen, the pouting kidnapped dungeon girl of Dick Cheney is the brain damaged child of Chicago artist Sarah Weiss. The whole episode of the psycho/paranoid art medium can be accessed on YouTube. Its aggressive and raw, and a dark commentary on the role of both women and youth in America's monster.

Winnipeg Free Press - July 27, 2006

Insanity Verdict for Child-Killer Mom

Yates stared wide-eyed as the verdict was read, then bowed her head and wept quietly. Her relatives also shed tears and the children's father, Rusty Yates, muttered: "Wow!" as he, too, cried. Yates' chief lawyer, George Parnham, called the verdict this time a "watershed event in the treatment of mental illness." "I'm very disappointed," prosecutor Kaylynn Williford said.

Winnipeg Free Press - October 23, 2009

Rushdie Sees Literature Capturing Insanity of Times

"How stupid of me," he responded. "I knew that. Maybe it is different here." He told an amusing anecdote about rock band U2 lead singer Bono and even made several quips about his "little dispute" with Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "Let me point out that one of us is dead," he said. "You know that little thing they say about the pen being mightier than the sword. You don't mess with novelists."

Winnipeg Free Press - January 13, 2010

Accused Planned Temporary Insanity Plea, Court Told

[William Chard] told court he was walking through the West End on the morning of the killing when a clearly upset [Daniel Johnson] approached him and began discussing how he'd "just killed a bitch." When asked why, Johnson told his friend she owed him $500. Johnson allegedly told another man he took the woman behind the building to rape her as "punishment" for owing him money, then stabbed her. He also text-messaged a co-worker at Tim Hortons, saying "I think I did something stupid." He later...

Winnipeg Free Press - August 14, 2006

Observers Dismiss Whitmore Insanity Defence

Lawyer Dan Brodsky's latest effort to defend [Peter Whitmore] is a clever legal manoeuvre to keep his client out of jail, said Roz Prober, a Winnipeg-based international child rights advocate. She said Whitmore belongs in a jail cell, not a hospital bed. "I don't know where he's coming from," the lawyer said, asking not to be quoted by name. "To try that defence, you've got to line up a psychiatrist who will say he (the accused) is not criminally responsible." "In the United States, pedophil...

Winnipeg Free Press - March 06, 2009

Four Months, Then Liberty

[Robert Chaulk]'s name is well-known in Canadian legal circles, as his original case made the Supreme Court redefine criminal insanity in a landmark decision. Chaulk was originally found guilty of killing an elderly man in 1985, but the country's highest court overturned the verdict based on his severe mental illness. Chaulk's mental illness wasn't an issue in the killing of [JEFF Sinclair]'s friends case and he pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter. He was sentenced to life in prison ...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 21, 2007

Runners Triumph in Insanity in the Desert

A film crew followed them, covering the desert journey for actor Matt Damon's production company, LivePlanet. Damon plans to narrate the Running the Sahara documentary. Despite the preparation and drive to finish, the runners said they often questioned -- mostly to themselves -- what they were doing. [Ray Zahab] described stopping one recent day for a bathroom break only to discover that the wind was blowing so harshly that he couldn't keep the sand out of his clothes. "And I thought to mysel...