From this otherwise fine* article.

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*Well, the language gets a bit rough at times. Be forewarned.

In late December 2006, an eighty-five-year-old man left his favorite restaurant and headed for his parked car. (more…)

Is not strained.

I’ve always believed this. 12 Angry Men is unwittingly a movie about how 12 jurors’ weak will and self-congratulatory image-making lets a murderer go free. Jury duty is not narrative, its not the enactment of a myth, its a civic job. Though to be fair, when actual criminal jurors fail to be tough-minded, it needn’t be in favor of the defendant.

We do not think that we should have to share the world with those who committed such a crime against God and man.

–Hannah Arendt

I doff my helmet in admiration of Judge William Mahon.

And that’s no (more…)