OMG! I completely forgot I had a blog. So I shall continue to bottle my thoughts and throw them at the screen like a molotov cocktail from my brain. Yes. I love butchering metaphors. We gotta deal with it.
So, last year at about this time, I was talking about how disappointed I was at MacWorld and Apple only introducing a phone. And now I have one. It's actually my second iPhone. I clearly underestimated to strength of the Cult of Mac. And my demigod Steve Jobs (may he praise us in all his glory). I also lambasted the pile of stinky excrement that is Windows Vista, and while I still think Vista is a pile of stinky excrement, I'm actually jealous of Windows 7. Good job Ballmer boy, even though you're still clearly addicted to some sort of stimulant. The Toshiba is gone, and I get to write on a Mac, though I wish I got renter's insurance and this one would turn up missing as well... Damn shouldn't have said that.
But that is not the point of my rant today. I just wanted to state that daytime television has a special spot in my heart. In these tough economic times, I have decided that cable television was not an expense that my wallet could vomit up monthly. Seriously, damn you Cox. But anyways, I am still continually entertain by the DROVES of over-litigious malcontented, hopeless, foolish idiots.
I can sit for hours watching people sue their neighbors and family members over the dumbest of things. I hope no one in my life would take me to arbitration over losing their remote control during the Super Bowl.
Yesterday, while watching the Honorable Judge Joe Brown adjudicate on a case that clearly made a shamockery of his education and experience, I was honestly impressed with his wit and mental abilities. Let me set the scene for you, are you with me? This woman was suing** another member of her church for breaking her digital camera during her son's christening.
Let me repeat. This woman attending a church service was tapped to take pictures of a momentous occasion for the plaintiff, dropped the camera. And broke it. And got sued. For $100. The litigant would not accept an apology and the defendant would not just pay the $100 in full or in installments.
The stretched this petty argument for a half an hour. Craziness. At the end when the defendant wouldn't just reach in her pocket and write a check for the $100, Judge Brown got grumpy. He's a grump. And I love it.
His decision? He got sick and tired of these women talking about how they were "good Christians" and how they "went to church to better themselves". He bluntly told them they missed the point of the sermons they listened to week in and week out. (Like so many others, they probably went to church just to show up and not to be talked about in their community). Forgiveness and responsibility were apparently not something their pastor had ever touched upon, or maybe they were too busy planning their outfits for next weeks services to pay attention. The defendant was ordered to pay not $100 but $200, but not to the plaintiff, but to her church's charity. The plaintiff got nothing for her frivolous complaint. HA. Justice. Loves it. At least they got to be on TV!
That is all. Judge Brown is a badass.
