Right now we don’t need more reasons to ponder the fabric and fragility of our democracy. Not exactly the best timing for the George Zimmerman jury selection to have been a news staple.
Thanks, as it were, to the wry tweets and sardonic humor of Tampa Bay Times reporter Ben Montgomery, we are again reminded that a jury of one’s peers is somewhere between a crap shoot and an oxymoron. The jury system, featuring variations on a civically-disengaged, news-challenged pool theme, was on trial before Zimmerman’s fate is decided.