It was that fucking I.T. geek. The dithering, over-analytical, demon-spawned sophist of a man he was, we were in that hot, cramped room for almost two days now with no end in sight because he refused to take a side. Fresh from the jury box, six of us thought the defendant was guilty; the other [...]
Read more →Truth, it turns out, becomes subjective once it enters a courtroom. How can I honestly and reasonably judge something diluted by persuasion and interpretation, as all law is? Who am I to decide what is and what isn’t, and upon what logic do I found my estimation of circumstance? It’s a DUI trial, wherein the [...]
Read more →I’m feeling overdressed. I wore business attire, as my summons said I should—a dress shirt, creased trousers and a tie—but at the courthouse today I was surrounded by T-shirts and jeans. I have the feeling that there are other people who want to be there even less than I do. An off-duty judge came down [...]
Read more →When I read my jury duty summons last month, I did so with great hesitation and anxiety. I had never received a notice before, having been enlisted in the Marine Corps since 18 and therefore being rendered ineligible for jury duty for most of my adult life. But I’m out now, and just as soon [...]
Read more →Daniel got lost in the soiled scene taking place on the tracks beneath the subway platform at 51st and Lexington. He stared at two rats gnawing hungrily at the mangled corpse of a third and thought about the idea of progress. We’re dirty things. We started off on all fours like all of God’s creatures, [...]
Read more →Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was [...]
Read more →“What has been so apparent in the modern history of the family will be no less apparent in the future histories of profession, university, labor union, and all other forms of association in our culture. Deprive these entities of the authorities over their members through increasing centralization of political power in society, and these associations, [...]
Read more →Law requires faith. Man must be faithful in the institution of law and in his contracted brethren with whom he shares the empathy of petition — namely, that they share the common bond of having signed the social contract and agreed with each other to follow it in its legal manifest. Those not involved in [...]
Read more →All has been thought, but travel boldly in pursuit of that novel idea. The tragic comedy by which all great men live: boarding majestic ships of purpose with prior knowledge of the impending wreck. For there is no host country to original thought, but instead a sinking into the vast ocean of thoughts. And still [...]
Read more →When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. — Abraham Lincoln Faith is the conclusion we draw from the understanding that man is not something that merely is, but is instead something constantly becoming. To become requires faith, because why would we try to do more [...]
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