About 95% of trials in Massachusetts last three days or less. 12 Frogs is on the jury for one of the 5-percent cases:

... I feel a need for a rant about lawyers, doctors, and the need to be right coming on. Also possibly a rant about time-wasting in the court system, and the funny idea that you are paid less for actively (versus passively) participating in the system. But since I've got this whole need-to-be-ethical thing going on, I have to wait until the trial is over. Let that be soon.

Sean notes that sometimes the Fox 25 morning news makes no sense whatsoever.

So His Boredness deigns to give being governor another shot - of New York this time. David runs down all the reasons he probably has no chance (Number 1: Eliot Spitzer is no human ball of anger like John Silber), but says what will be interesting is watching Weld's interaction with his fellow Republicans:

... It will be interesting, however, to see how the national GOP reacts to a truly socially moderate candidate like Weld running for a major office in an important state. It will also be interesting to see whether Weld feels any need at least to play nice with, if not necessarily to toe the party line of, the national party. Should have some entertainment value, if nothing else.

Jeremiah doesn't like that the Red Cross won't take blood from gay men or people with tattoos, so he's calling for a boycott on blood donations until it changes the policy. He doesn't discuss what would happen if people took him up on it and he showed up at the hospital after, say, a bad car accident.