So I see while I was selflessly serving with my fellow citizens rendering judgment on the claims of still other citizens within the hallowed traditions of the American legal system, assorted radical right-wing jihadists called for Jerry Tarkanian's shiftless offspring to get out of the U.S. Senate race to make way for Nevada's Rand Paul-style National Media Punchline Waiting To Happen, Sharron Angle.
Hey! Somebody else (ahem) already suggested that Jerry's kid should take one for the team months ago. And to think people say I'm out of touch with the heartland.
Now that it has been firmly established that your Gleaner knows more about the turbulent teabag psyche and its intersection with broader American political dynamics than the teabaggers themselves ever will (the advantage of an objective distance, no doubt), my column published in CityLife the other day is probably all the more trenchant.
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As for the jury duty thing, ifn's yer interested ... the case was just a couple of mostly creepy bidness types fighting over money blahblahblah. There was both a claim and a counterclaim, and upon fairly weighing the facts as they had been presented to us, your Gleaner and his fellow Americans -- who, you will be pleased to know (and contrary to stereotypes about juries), were all very attentive and thoughtful and conscientious and seemed pretty dedicated to doing the right thing -- basically told both sides that next time they come to court maybe they should consider bringing some, you know, evidence. In other words, we ruled against both claims and awarded no money to anybody.
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