Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 06, 2016

You’re out of luck; the number one non-fiction is by Bill O’Reilly.

I just saw the Twilight Zone episode in which a man who hates other people makes them all disappear, and replaces them with people exactly like him.:If that ever happened to Rat, do you think he’d learn anything?

“If you are accused of a crime, you have a right to a trial before a jury of people who are too stupid to get out of jury duty”. – Dave Barry

How will a book help? At least specify what kind. Perhaps a title. One good though. Those law books are almost always super boring.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

Even Mark Twain was against the American jury system. He observed that it caused juries to be packed with the most ignorant and uninterested people in the community. This was over 125 years ago! We’ve seen enough abortions of justice by stupid or corrupt juries. I can name several in my lifetime alone: T. Cullen Davis (multiple), Casey Anthony, OJ Simpson, Walker Railey, Robert Blake, and Candace Montgomery, to name a few. It really is true that trials are one or lost in jury selection.

Obviously I meant “won” in the last sentence. It’s late.

Well. we just got another abortion of justice in the re-sentencing of O. Pistorius – 6 years in prison for blasting away his girlfriend with a gun. This time we have to blame it on an incompetent judge. OP had a history of discharging guns in public and acting like a fool on many occasions, and I have no doubt, after reviewing the evidence, that he killed her in a fit of rage. He should spend life in prison. (However, if a jury in Texas had handled this case, he probably would have gotten off Scot-free.)

Oh it’s so cruel. But so true.

Well now if people would not commit crimes in the first place we would not have to think of “Stupid” jury duty !………….spare the rod and spoil the child…………….

I am all for reading more books, but it would still be OK if people just watched less TV.

Who would have expected Rat to become an advocate for education?! —Even if he does it for purely selfish reasons….

That’s the world we live in. We might as well pull ourselves together because this is how it’s always going to be.

xxx

Don’t get it. Is Mr. Blue Shirt one of the “most people” folks? How does “read books” help “dumb”? Perhaps “ignorant” is meant instead? This toon not as sharp as usual.

Wouldn’t you rather have stupid people on the jury? Chances are they’ll be easier to manipulate.