You know what? I have been there myself so many times…10 bucks in my pocket and terrified about how I’m going to feed myself for the next few days. Desperate for money, you sell anything you can. You even consider breaking the law.

I have, however, never considered breaking into someone else’s property and certainly would rather starve myself than kill another person.

On June 23, 2008 Daniel Sonnex, 23, from Deptford, South London, must have found himself in such an emergency situation, although one may suspect it was more the cravings for drugs that drove him and not the need of necessities. He broke into an apartment in South East London that was rented by 23-year-old Laurent Bonomo, one of two French students who had been awarded biochemistry scholarships in the U.K. “Dano” managed to steal a laptop that morning, while Bonomo was taking a shower.

The phrase ‘perfect storm’ was first coined by William Makepeace Thacheray in his novel “Vanity Fair” in 1847. This phrase commonly refers to an event or series of events where rare and powerful forces collide to dramatically aggravate an existing situation with disastrous results.

When John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho of Brownsville, Texas met in 2001 it began a chain of events that ended with an event that would rock not only the city of Brownsville, but the entire state of Texas. And given all the wackiness that goes on in Texas, that’s saying a lot.

Angela Camacho was born in Mexico and illegally immigrated to the United States. She settled in Brownsville and had a child with one man and then became pregnant again by another. When she was about one month along in her second pregnancy, she met John Allen Rubio.

I once thought the worst reason for reversing a sentence was to give some compassion to an aging convict, but once again I am proven that there is something lower than the bottom of the barrel. Susan Atkins, a member of the “Manson family”, and according to some, the murderer of Sharon Tate back in 1969, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008. There were people who felt that she should be let out of jail as to die with some dignity among family and friends. Other people felt that a life sentence clearly meant that the convicted criminal is to stay in jail until that convict’s death.

But the Supreme Court in the State of Connecticut has dug deeper, beyond what I thought was the bottom of the barrel.

On September 15, 1998 Robert Courchesne was convicted on murder charges for killing Demetris Rodgers over a $410 drug related debt. For that crime Courchesne received a sentence which is not being questioned. What gave this POS a special place on death row was the fact that Demetris was eight months pregnant at the time. Her baby, Antonia delivered by emergency Cesarean section, died 42 days later. For this deed Courchesne earned a capital felony conviction.

But to the Supreme Court in the State of Connecticut, the ruling in 1998 is not good enough to leave this POS on death row. Apparently there is a question as to weather Antonia was “born alive” after stabbing Demetris.

My children are the joy of my life. They have reaffirmed my faith in something greater than myself. They make me laugh and look at the wonder of the world through their eyes.

They also make me want to drive a steel spike through my head, over and over again. Like this morning when I had an argument with one of them as to why jalapeno flavored tortilla chips and chocolate milk did not constitute the breakfast of champions.

Children are often argumentative, stubborn, obstinate and down right nasty in their honesty. It requires a lot of patience, understanding and unconditional love to raise a child.

In my previous post, I wrote about Charles Cullen. Cullen was a serial killer who used his medical profession as a modus operandi for ending the lives of his unfortunate victims. For those of you who thought that Cullen was the worst, think again. Say hello of Harold Shipman.

Harold Frederick Shipman, or “Dr. Death” as he so was coined after his arrest, was the man with the highest number of confirmed murders in the modern world, weighing in at 218. 218 confirmed victims. Not a number to forget, and not a man to forget any time soon, alive or dead.

I would like everyone to meet Jasmine Nicole Bowman, and 9, Minnet Cecilia Bowman, 11, of Lusby, Maryland. Aren’t these precious little angels beautiful? You can tell from their picture that Minnet is the mischievous one (just look at that grin) and that Jasmine is a little shy. Their eyes sparkle and their smiles light up the room. You can almost hear their high-pitched giggles as they laugh at one another’s jokes. Well, you could hear them if they weren’t dead. And thrown into a freezer.

These two sisters, along with an unnamed 7-year-old sister, were adopted by Renee Bowman from the District of Columbia. Renee, the ravaging beauty below, systematically starved and then asphyxiated both Jasmine and Minnet.

This is 36-year-old James Clarence Davis.

James is awesome.

James Davis, a man’s man, likes many things that other men like.

He likes drugs.

He likes cars.

He likes sex.

James here is basically like a down-home version of James Dean. Party hard, drive fast, screw as you please.

James picks women he’s comfortable with, and that means they can’t be too independant and they can’t be real deep thinkers.

This is 28-year-old Bryan Chenhua Chang.

Mr. Bryan Chang, like many Asians, grew up in a household that valued education. They realize that their progeny are, most likely, going to be able to support them in their old age a lot better if they have a college degree of some kind. Usually a medical degree, but a computer degree or an engineering degree will sometimes work out well too.

In this case, Bryan’s mother – 60-year-old Sherry Chu Chang – financed Brian’s stay at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

That was very nice of her.

So Bryan Chang had a technologically-oriented degree, he was young and his future was wide open.