I think I’m gonna shoot off an e-mail “letter to the editor” to Timmeh Russert, or maybe Wolf Blitzed, demanding to know why they’re not reporting on this 24/7, wasting my time with piddlin’ little nothing “news” like they usually do. If I can’t get my daily fill of drivel from them then what am I to do, turn to the Intertubes? Good drivel is hard to come by and we can only truly depend upon the MSM to deliver it daily by the buckets-full.

I served on two trial juries. I was foreman in both because I told them, “I’ll do it.” It was that simple. In one case they went for ‘guilty’ and in the other the vast majority went one way and three were holdouts. They had no good reason, they were just obstinate. After the judge pulled us in to check on our progress we returned to deliberating and the 3 flipped instantly and together. When we filed into the courtroom the final time the judge said, (paraphrasing) “This ought to be interesting because somebody sure was lyin’ in this case.”

I hope Reggie Walton gets a massage or something when it’s over. He deserves a little something nice for having done a good job. I’d almost forgive him for what he did to Sibel Edmonds.

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!

Oops, darn, too late it’s already past midnight. Sigh…..

I would still like to know and when are the 12 voting members of the jury selected from the pool.

These people have spent enough time in sidebar that somebody probably muttered the word “guilty” and it opened the floodgates. Everyone except for the old woman thinks he’s guilty as sin – you’d have to be smoking crack to believe Libby.

I recall a similar situation in the trial of Dennis Koslowski of Tyco: a lone holdout on the jury actually winked at the defense and got busted, and subsequently kicked off the jury.

Hopefully they’ll just kick the lone holdout off the jury and replace her with a guilty vote.

Can they do that?

My guess is the one person in every group who is sentimental (The court staff have been sooo good to us!) and is the first to send all of his/her co-workers an annoying email saying “let’s buy a gift for xyz co-worker whom we hardly know in the branch office who lost her doggy this week.” That type. She/he dreams this up and has the shirts made and shows up at the courthouse with them (hmmm, wouldn’t they search her/him and ask what is this?). So now they are in the holding pen and she drags out the t-shirts and gives them the spiel. I’m surprised that more didn’t decline, but then I suppose one can get giddy after a couple of weeks on a jury.

Hurray for the holdout on the t-shirt.

I’ve wished Keith O would do Scooter Libby Puppet Theater!

Or something like that.

The gesture is tacky & so innocent. I’ll bet they were on sale at a nearby street vendor’s table. The marshalls would’ve alerted Judge Walten if it were improper.

We’ve got lots to speculate on before Tuesday, don’t we?