So, on the front page of today’s Austin American Statesman, there’s a story about poor little pitiful Rick Perry and how the big bad Democrats are just beating up on him for extorting a public official.

Get this:

That sounds pretty bad, right?

Well, I guess it would be until you realize that a grand jury has 12 members and even the Statesman itself admits that this grand jury has only 3 (and possibly 4) Democrats on it.  I dunno, maybe I slept through fifth grade math, but even 4 out of 12 ain’t exactly Democratic leaning.

Note to people in foreign states:  We don’t register by party in Texas.  By voting in  a party’s primary, you swear to be a member of that party.  The reason we can’t know for sure which primary a grand jury member voted in is because we only have their names and there’s a whole mess of people named Festus Thigpen or Maria Lopez in Texas.

So, let’s be generous and say it’s 4 Democrats.  So, it breaks down like this, 4 Democrats, 4 people with no primary voting history, 2 people who are not registered to vote, and 2 Republicans.

So, calling 30% “leaning” ain’t just yellow journalism, Honey.  It’s neon yellow with a poopie del pollo stripe down the middle.  As far as we know, all 8 of the others are Republicans.

In my mind, that grand jury leans toward people who don’t care about polities all that much.

Sometimes I wonder why I read that newspaper.  No, wait, make that damn near most of the time.