Jury Duty

I had jury duty a few weeks ago. It was a good and horrifying up-close look at the justice system. I hope to never, ever have to be involved in a jury trial for any reason, mainly because people are dumb, and also because attorneys have no interest in a fair or impartial trial. They want to win (as they should do), but if your starting pool is a collection of morons that didn't even know how to avoid the summons* then your ending group is going to be... not good. You can get get a lot of things from the US justice system but you don't get justice.

* I am a member of that group. Pro tip: throw the summons in the trash. No one is going to come after you, they don't have the budget for it.