Entries for September 27, 2006

Last night I was one of the participants in a Pajamas Media panel, at the National Press Club. The overall impresario was Roger Simon, and the moderator was none less than Glenn Reynolds. Other participants were Tom Bevan, Mark Blumenthal, Jane Hall, Cliff May, Paul Mirengoff, and Claudia Rosett. The stated subject was "How partisan is too partisan?" but much of the discussion was about the biases of the mainstream media.

On September 12, I was selected, much to my surprise, to be a member of a jury in the District of Columbia Superior Court. One of the liabilities of living in the District is the frequency with which you are summoned to jury duty, about once every two years. It's a peril of living in a jurisdiction with a high number of criminal cases and a low number of registered voters per capita.