A little over a year ago I served jury duty, including the honor, or horror, of actually being chosen for the jury itself. It was terrifying how lazy the whole process was. The potential jury poll was maybe about 150 people and the selection process was done as sort of a group interview. They asked a lot of general questions about prejudices and prior knowledge of the case and whatnot. Then they gave anyone the chance to say anything they felt pertinent. I didn’t say a single thing the entire time. But for no other reason than I was literally jury candidate 0001 I earned the privilege of driving to the courthouse at some ungodly hour to sit and listen to a buncha people tell conflicting stories, followed by tedious debate with 11 other strangers, using some horrendously inadequate directions provided by the judge. And if you’ve ever worked with a modest sized group of randomly chosen people before you know that’s gonna go just great.