Several years ago I was the foreman of the jury in a case where a bunch of 20 somethings and some teens were driving around on July 4th shooting fireworks at their neighbors from a rented Chevy Blazer. One of them dropped a lit bottle rocket into their stash of incendiaries causing it to explode, killing one and burning the rest of them quite severely.

They tried suing each other but none of them had anything so they decided to sue Alamo Rental Car since they had rented the car to them. After seven days of hearing how horrible their injuries were we, the jury, tossed the entire thing out.

That anyone would expect to get paid for blowing themselves up was bad enough, that a lawyer would take the case and the courts entertain it was even worse. Luckily the case was heard here in Iowa where juries can still tell BS when they see it.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.