I thought rape and kidnapping were criminal offences

The last time I checked, kidnapping and rape were designated as criminal acts. You'd go to prision for kidnap or rape. Not a psychiatric institution.

But Josef Fritzl, who pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape is going to a psychiatric institution. Why not prison? I spose there will be the psychiatric mumbo jumbo about his mental state, that he is mentally unstable, and all that stuff. But he's a criminal and should be in prison.

Or is it that the psychiatric institution can make a few bucks out of him?

How d'you know that then?

Every now and then, a real beauty comes along that begs to be asked the question: how d'you know that then? High speed brains are in the genes was the story covered in the New Scientist. The story also states, alongside the waffle, that attention deficit disorder is associated with 'degraded myelin.' How d'you know that then?

There's also a pretty picture that goes with the story, a picture that has some cute colours on it, and some numbers on it as well that are supposed to denote what bit of the brain does what. Looks like a page out of a kid's colouring book to me. But hey, who am I to pass comment when we've got 'experts' to tell us.

Please, please, please be mentally ill

Saw this story on http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/ about the private hospital chain, the Priory Group. It was headlined Priory Warns Of 'Recession-Depression' Escalation. Using a nice bit of alliteration, the Group have warned it's going to get really gloomy in these credit crunch times.

I think the story should be reworded: Priory Group desperately hopes people will get mentally ill so the hospitals can fill their beds, and bleed the health policies dry. So despite the doom and gloom, there are innovative ways to beat the credit crunch.

Be depressed today, help the Priory Group fill a bed, and help the Group come through the credit crunch. They're counting on you, and you, and you, and you, and you...

Psychiatric nurse jailed for rape

The Argus covered the story of psychiatric nurse Michael Crossland who was jailed for 15 years after raping two patients.

Good job there's now a statute that covers this kind of degraded and sick behaviour. Many in a similar position to Crossland have got away with it in the past because the patient 'agreed'.

Mr Crossland's now got 15 years to contemplate where it all went wrong.