Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The crap runneth over.

Unfunny Comic Strip of the Day
Man, the smut parade continues. When did Aunt Fritzie get all skanky?

Beatdown-worthy U of C alum of the Day

The elderly keep trying to evade the justice system.
"This is the youngest jury pool I've ever seen," said Driskell's attorney, Deborah Poole. "Most of these people look under 30. How does one have a trial when you are not able to include a whole class of people in the jury?"

Here's a chilling bit from the story:
Some jurors were young enough to be Driskell's grandchildren or great-grandchildren.

Juror No. 21, a tow-headed young man in a T-shirt and cargo shorts, appeared barely old enough to vote.

What tripe. If he was called for jury service, that means he IS old enough to vote. Why is CNN telling us that younger people shouldn't be trusted on a jury? Send 'em to die in Iraq, sure. Take their tax dollars to pay for Social Security, cool. But have them sit on a jury to decide a case in which the following occurred:
[She] drew an antique handgun she had hidden behind her back, put the gun to Winslow's head and fired up to four times, Atlanta Detective D.B. Mathis said.

"I did it and I'd do it again!" Driskell was quoted as yelling to the officers who found her waving the gun and holding her finger on the trigger when they arrived.

Why, that would be denying an old person her constitutional rights.

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