I was finally summoned for jury duty, and was scheduled to appear today, but when I telephoned this morning, our group had been dismissed. I was really disappointed, because I’ve always wanted to serve on a jury. I feel that if you ever get called to serve on a jury, you should do so willingly, and a verdict should not be reached lightly. If you are are going to reach verdict of guilty, you better be completely sure the defendant is guilty, and that the law being applied is fair.
Also, if you have never heard of jury nullification, I would suggest reading that entire article. I do not condone abusing your rights as a juror, but I do completely believe in reaching a fair and just verdict.
About 10 years ago, while on my mission, I heard a song by The Cardigans that I really liked (not to mention that I was already in love with Nina Persson’s voice). But by the time I returned home, I couldn’t remember the name of it, or exactly what it sounded like to be able to find it. All I could remember was that it was a live version of a song from one of their singles released in the late 90s, that it had a fast tempo, and that it had the lyrics “har har har” somewhere in the song.
I had been home for about 2 years, when I found a song titled “Sick & Tired” off their Emmerdale album; I thought sounded like it might be the song I was looking for, but since it didn’t have the har har har lyrics in it, I ended up deciding it wasn’t it, and gave up looking for the song.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look again and found a pretty good discography listing on their official website. When I saw the following CD, I realized that I was retarded, and that the har har har lyrics were likely only in the live version:
I realize this is the wrong live performance (this one says it’s off the “Erase/Rewind” single; though even that’s probably wrong, and it should be listed as being from the “Rewind-Live” single), but I still can’t find the recording from the “My Favourite Game CD 1″ single, and this example is good enough.
I’m sick and tired (ooh, that reminds me I need to write another entry soon after this) of people talking about how media is grossly biased one way for either liberals or conservatives. Here’s what someone I know recently said about media bias: “Yes the right has it’s [sic] share too, but not NEAR the volume.”¹ Now this is entirely speculation (and oh, how I love to speculate (ideas, not oil), but I’ve come up with a hypothesis I think I’ll call “the horde vs alliance effect” (I hate to use this game to compare to real life, but it’s a super awesome analogy, in my opinion). And I am in no way saying media bias does not exist, because it absolutely does.
Basically, no matter which side you pick, everyone seems to complain that the other side significantly outnumbers or outperforms the side you’re on. If you play horde, you hear (or even make) continuous complaints that the alliance are too good, that they cheat, that horde can never win, and vice versa. While on some servers in the game this could possibly be true, the company that runs the game has confirmed that wins and losses are split extremely evenly between the two sides.
I would be rather surprised if this wasn’t also true in nearly every aspect of real life, including media bias.
1. Bennion, Karl-Erik. Used without permission. 3 September 2008. Accessed 1 October 2008. http://kebstuff.com/?p=128
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