Mike Browne’s Blog

Remember Andrea Yates? She’s the woman who drowned her children in a bathtub 3 years ago. She was convicted and sentenced to life behind bars. According to this MSNBC article she ‘wants to put an end to this,’ her lawyer says.

Wow, that’s a shocker. She murdered her children and now she’s unwilling to live with what she did? I guess that tosses the whole insanity thing. If she was truly legally insane she wouldn’t be feeling guilty or troubled by what she did. Would she?

It was very disturbing to hear how someone could do this, to their own children especially. I know I ‘wanted’ her to be found insane. No one in their right mind could perform an act like that. Could they? Apparently that’s not the case at all. People are found guilty of horrific crimes every day. It’s sad what we’re capable of doing to one another.

I remember the uproar when Yates didn’t get the death penalty. Some folks were outraged. Being anti-death penalty myself I was glad that there was a life sentence. I think death is too easy for some of these people. Especially child killers. Having to live a long life knowing what you did is true punishment.

Hey Andrea (like she’ll ever read this) if you feel bad about what you did it’s because you did a bad thing. That awful nagging guilt is called a conscience. Killing yourself is the ultimate in avoiding responsibility for the acts you performed and would be the final injustice. How does suicide improve the situation for anyone but yourself? No one else needs to die here. Take your punishment…

Gamers, check under hood because Doom 3 is coming
My machine can handle the new game, but I’m think more RAM is in order. Looks like 384mbs to rrun the game and I have 512mbs. Perhaps I should go to a gig. Hmmmm…

Why not be the Canadian Wine Coordinator – Ottawa, ON. It’s a federal gig and pays $61,312 to $66,287. Perhaps if it was a position calling for an imbecilic drunkard wino who becomes hostile and belligerent then falls on his face while passing out, I would be more quailified. I have tons of experience. This is not the job for me. Perhaps 12 years ago, but now it would be a bad thing.

Me with that job:
“That was tasty wine. Let’s taste it until it’s gone. We’ll coordinate it all into my belly.”
*glub* *glub* *glub*
Why are you looking at me that way? You’re not so shpeshial… *hic*
Wanna fight, ya bashtard?! *hic* *urp*
(tips over)
*THUD*
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

UPDATE: in response to my post Jackson sent me this link to an eBay item:
A picture CD of Billie Simpson “Drunk Armless Midget”… WTF?

A passerby noticed an old lady sitting on her front step: “I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look! What is your secret for such a long and happy life?”

“I smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day,” she said. “Before I go to bed, I smoke a nice big joint. Apart from that, I drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels every week, and eat only junk food. On weekends I pop a huge number of pills and do no exercise at all.”

“This is absolutely amazing at your age!!!!”, says the passerby. “How old are you?”

“Twenty-four”

Thanks to Big Al Mac for this one…

Ken Dryden is the new minister of Social Development. I wonder if he’ll ‘save’ the nation… (play sheepyhorn.mp3 to get a better feel for this little witticism)

Check out this article: Terror in the Skies, Again? – WomensWallStreet
It appears that many Americans are still very afraid of what may occur in the air. It’s sad that a group of musicians can be looked upon as a threat just because they are of middle eastern descent. If it had been a mormon choir doing the same things you can pretty much guarantee they wouldn’t have gotten a second look.

Not all ninjas have it all together. Like this one for example: stupid_ninja_300k.wmv (1.75mb) …right click and choose ‘save as…’

Check out Parasite TV. Not for the kiddies at all.

You can thank Sneaky Pete for this little gem.

Post box or CHEESE? Possibly the hardest test in the world!

What’s your score?