19 thoughts on “April 15, 2022: Double Billing”

    1. It's really too bad. I think the Clips could have given Phoenix trouble. Much more so than New Orleans.

  1. I’ve been summoned to jury duty on Monday, the second time I’ve received a summons in the 15 years I’ve lived here. In that time, I’ve known one other person who has been called. I’m not a probability expert, but I feel unlucky in this regard.

    1. That still seems like a pretty low rate to me. Over the last 10 years, I think I've had jury duty 5 times. Though, all of them had me call in the night before, and I only once did I actually need to go in to the courthouse.

      1. You’re called to jury duty essentially every other year? This seems nightmarish for citizens caught in that cycle, but also like their selection system is broken.

        1. Twice in 15 years doesn't seem outrageous. Seems like you can get on the fast track if they know your employer still pays you on your jury duty days, though.

        2. My impression is that California requests WAY more people than actually needed, just in case. So we get “called” for jury duty every other year, but with the full expectation that most years you will phone in the night before you are supposed to come in and be released. And if your lot happens to be in the group that doesn’t need to show up, you’re good for at least a year. I think between my wife and I we have actually had to go in to the courthouse twice over the past 12 years.

          Plus, you can get paid a whole $15 a day starting in day 2! (Though I can’t as a state funded employee; I just get my normal pay whether I am teaching classes or serving on a jury. I’ve always assumed serving on a long trial would actually be less work than doing my job.)

          1. In 22 years, I have been called about 4 times, including times I have deferred. Made it to the courthouse twice. Once, we were all dismissed on the second day because all of the judge's cases were settled. The other time, I got as far as the gallery, but didn't get called into the box.

            In contrast, my wife has been on two jury trials.

  2. what if we made Jackie Robinson Day, a day where we celebrate all of the firsts. Every single team had a first. Integration was not a high speed train, it was more like a glacier, slow-moving but impactful. There is a long list of players whose legacies hardly ever get touched. We are still celebrating the first woman on many teams with still much more to go. In the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two. And when you look at it this way, doesn’t it feel a little counterproductive to always be looking to the past?

    From a Man to a Movement

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