Do Your Doody

Jury duty today. This is almost one year to the day of my last jury duty. Though, this time, I am doing the duty in a lower court. More misdemeanors, I guess. Last time I got booted from a jury trying a man who stabbed a homeless woman in the throat. I was not picked after a short diatribe, on my part, about perception and how it is linked to identity and why our precoceptions of matters cannot help but be jaded by our own personal history. It was a fancy way of saying "I can spot a guilty man a mile away, and I know what I know."  It went well. I was the second guy booted after the first fella whose wife sat on the state surpreme court. Ha. They didn't want me. I didn't fit into their program.

I often think of my buddy's rant about the justice system when doing court-related stuff. My buddy says that "everybody's innocent". The reason for this is because our justice system is inherently flawed, and there is no such thing as a fair trial. So, as a default, everybody HAS to be innocent because the system is working against them. Interesting theory. I don't know if he's right, but it sure seems as if you have enough money or power, you don't have to live by the same rules as everybody else. I mean, look at Karl Rove, and how he thumbed his nose at a congressional subpoena.

Maybe my buddy is right. I sure know that I'd never be able to afford a lawyer. I'd have to have help if I was ever accused of anything that required a lawyer. I'd have to ask my family for money. And, depending on the charge, I may not get it. Hell, I'd probably already be guilty in their eyes. Maybe I would be, depending on the charge.

I wonder when the last time McCain served on a jury was. Does he get summoned, or are senators immune to serving. I sure know they never make it out of the pool. No lawyer in his right mind would put a senator in the box. I sure wouldn't. Too much drama.

Can you imagine being sequestered with Palin for a week? I'm sure she would insist on being the jury's foreman. You betcha!

Well, the 2nd presidential debate is tonight, and everybody's all a-twitter with anticipation. It's like survivor, but it's real. We should make them eat rats. I know McCain could eat a rat. Hell, he probably has. Maybe he still does. Maybe he chases them around on all fours, cornering them and playing with them for awhile, crippling them before he kills. mmm.....rat.

I hope Obama has the good sense not to drop a planned "zinger" tonight. He's not been ripe with them, though that doesn't mean he's not been rehearsing. I think if he manages to thwart McSame with facts, he'll be much better off. Grampy, on the other hand, will be gushing with tirades tonight. I'm sure he's been sharpening his barbed responses all week. When do you suppose he had time to do it without postponing his campaign again?

So, my prediction: McCain will be a complete ass tonight and say a bunch of defamatory stuff rooted in fantasy, and offer no real solutions for any of America's problems. Obama will try, in vain, to stick to the problems at hand, and try not to look agitated at McCain's oncoming tirade of falsities. McCain, again, will be considered the winner before the debate takes place by every right-leaning medial outlet in the country.

If you are playing at home, every time he says "mavrick" you have to drink.

Except me. Every time he says "mavrick" a part of me wants to throw up. Kinda the opposite effect.