You all remember the mass killing carried out in Norway by Anders Breivik, yes? This is the man that killed 69 people at a Labor Party youth camp last July. I was reading news about his trial and I had to rub my eyes to make sure I was reading it right. His defense, his defense, urged the court to consider him sane while the prosecution urged the court to consider him insane. The prosecution.

What is this, bizarro world? Well, turns out that the maximum prison sentence in Norway is only 21 years, with early parole possible. And I assume that a person can be held more indefinitely at a psychiatric institution. But when have you ever heard of a defense urging sanity and the prosecution urging insanity? That seems very backwards to me.

(By the way, Breivik's defense wants him declared sane and acquitted because his actions were one of necessity. Can you believe that?)