Better Luck Today

Following the jury selection for the Casey Anthony trial...

After an agonizingly slow Monday, it looked like the jury selection process was moving along smoothly on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the jury pool was tainted by a discussion about Casey Anthony prior to the prospective jurors entering the courtroom. Judge Perry dismissed the lot.

Casey Anthony - wow. A complete narcissistic sociopath. Currently, she's mad at her attorney, Jose Baez, and has chosen to spend her time in the courtroom pointedly ignoring him.

Baez is thoroughly enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. His incessant smirking is driving me nuts. He and the rest of the defense team are going to do any and everything in their power to delay the start of the trial. I feel for the jurors who are selected, as I am sure Team Casey will drag this trial out well beyond the estimated 8 weeks.

Casey spends her time preening. She's constantly fiddling with her hair, smoothing her eyebrows, tugging at her clothes. She did look like she was going to pull her Day One crocodile tears routine, carefully arranging her face into somber lines as the second round of jurors were brought in. She even had her package of tissues handy. When the 50 jurors were dismissed, she went back to her usual look of annoyance. And the self-absorbed fiddling resumed.

By now, it's easy to gather that I think Casey Anthony is guilty as hell. I have followed this case from the very beginning.

This is a miserable cast - Casey Anthony has the lead - Classic Tramp. She's an out-of-control, pathological liar, saddled with a child she didn't want, Caylee. Work? Out of the question. Easier to sleep with many men, steal from friends, party every night, oh, and get rid of her daughter, whom she clearly viewed as an impediment to the finer life of bumping and grinding the night away at clubs.

George Anthony - The Spineless Father/Grandfather. George is still clearly grieving the loss of his beloved Caylee. I keep hoping at some point he'll find his spine and stand up for his granddaughter. Yes, I do feel for him...Caylee is gone, he knows what a horror his daughter, Casey, truly is, his life has disintigrated around him, and he's married to...

Cindy Anthony - Rivals Dina Lohan for Worst Mother EVER. Let's bastardize Sheakespeare for a moment...this is one shrew that can never be tamed. Lying, grasping, in complete denial as to Casey's true evil. My belief is that Caylee was the love of Cindy's. Casey knew that, and killed Caylee, both to gain her own freedom to work on her career as a grifter, and to deliver the ultimate f-u to her mother. Cindy is as accomplished a liar as Casey. At the start of this entire mess, it was patently obvious that Cindy was glorying in her own space in the spotlight.

Lee Anthony - The Enigma. Where does Lee stand? What does he know? What does he really think of his sister and her actions? Is he going to be the one to step out of the shadows and blow the lid off the box of lies his family has delivered?

Jose Baez - Smarmy Bozo. As mentioned earlier, Jose is loving the cameras in the courtroom. He hasn't shown himself to be that great a lawyer, but he's sure got the bloviating down pat. Listening to him drone is agony.

Judge Perry - The MAN!!! Yes, I'm biased - what a great judge. He keeps Bozo Baez in check and keeps the insanity moving right along.

More to come...