Honest, Judge: The Bipolar Made Me Do It

Oh nice. A school board member in Rhode Island claims that bipolar disorder made him concoct a fundraising scam. Lame excuse. Right up there with Jayson Blair blaming some of his transgressions at the New York Times on bipolar disorder. Hm. I wonder how Jayson's book on bipolar is coming along.

In the meantime, bipolar is not an excuse for doing stupid shit, unless you are well and truly in a psychotic state in which case you should probably not be prancing around in public. There is right and wrong in the world and bipolar disorder doesn't remove your obligation to know the difference and do the right thing.