Sunday Morning Coming Down

 I served on a Federal Grand Jury in Miami, Florida in the early 1980's.  I came from a pool of voters, had no reason to be disqualified, and completed the required forms, and my boss actually thought it would be a good experience(no problem with time off). We heard a lot of drug related cases that were of significant size.  The cases were almost entirely video taped at hotels, motels,gas stations near the Miami International Airport or the suspect's house.  There were a lot of cases back then and they were usually related to cocaine. The joke of a grand jury indicting a ham sandwich didn't apply but the cases we heard and saw were really open and shut.  These folks were not law abiding citizens coerced into doing something.  The votes were almost always unanimous.   You might wonder how the Grand Jury process has been tainted and how the idea of due process has been modified these days.

You bought the ticket, you take the ride. I follow a guy on Facebook that has worked diligently, been kind of frugal and been creative.  My gut reaction that the wealth he now has relates to his long term career at the University of Miami and being able to buy a house.  Being in the music industry and a college professor that passed adjunct some time ago, I'm really not sure which was the side gig. (I'll get to this later>) I started college at Illinois State University, bitten by the political bug, my major was political science, thinking I'd probably be a history teacher somewhere.  I spent two years at Illinois State. I really liked studying economics and Read Robert Dahl's "A preface on Democratic Theory.   At the time I thought majoritarian populism was the ticket to political stability. As a freshman I don't think the prof that was teaching the class appreciated me stopping by his office to deliver my opinion on Dahl's book which was written in 195...