Jury Duty, cont.
Been quiet for a while, since I’ve been on jury duty.
Not much to report – I was washed out of voir dire today. I’m on call, still, though, so we’ll see.
CIA asks Justice to investigate White House leak
The CIA has requested that the Justice department investigates the White House leak which led Robert Novak to out Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.
I’m sitting here at 6pm CT, wondering why this isn’t BIG news. It’s nowhere on the web, but Buzzflash and Josh Marshall’s site, it seems. Here’s what he has to say…
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Now, normally when such a story breaks the wire services will jump right on it and the other major papers and networks will report it out through their own sources and run the story too.
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But news that the CIA has recommended an investigation of White House aides for criminal wrongdoing is a pretty big deal. So the fact that no one else has picked it up strikes me as odd.
Can the general media be this much in the tank?
Jury Duty
Even as an alternate, I’ve been called – Children’s court Monday AM.
Ted Rall also says it for me.
Where working-class populists see him as a smug, effeminate frat boy who wouldn’t recognize a hard day’s work if it kicked him in his self-satisfied ass, intellectuals see a simian-faced idiot unqualified to mow his own lawn, much less lead the free world.
(Gasp!) I make a political comment!
At the risk of seeming like one of those tiresome hippies who constantly spout on and on about legalizing pot, I link now to the NORML and their efforts on behalf of comedian Tommy Chong.
I’m not so sure I’m all that fanatical about legalization, but, to paraphrase (vaguely) Muhammed Ali, “No potsmoker ever got into a violent argument with me”, unlike many of my drinking buddies. I don’t think pot is any worse – or better – than legal drugs, including alcohol or prescription medications and I think that jailing someone for selling accessories which could be used to ingest illegal substances is pretty ridiculous. Why not go after the urban quickee-marts that sell steel wool, baby powder and makeshift crack pipes?
Something Fun
So I was sitting around, bemoaning the fact that I never seem to post anything fun anymore, when I came across oddball comics of the day (thanks, BoingBoing).
Quiet
You know, I remember when I put a lot more personal stuff here.
Sorry I’ve gotten away from that. I’m sure that most of you either already agree with me politically or you’ll never be swayed – and are therefore tired of political Jeremy.
You can get your admission fees back from the ushers as you leave. Sorry.
The rest of you, well, thanks for sticking around.
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