Insomnia Rots Your Brain

On occasion I have problems sleeping. When this happens I end up staying up all night watching TV. I think this exactly what people tell you not to do when you have problems sleeping... Anyway! On this particular evening I'm watching America's Court with Judge Ross on Netflix. This has come about because I ran out of episodes of Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. The premise of the show is that people with absolutely ridiculous, immature lifestyles bring their petty problems onto a televised court show to get their five minutes of trashy fame. For some reason, I find this incredibly addictive. Boss Ross, as he calls himself, is the iron fist of the law and reviews these bizarre situations for a just ruling. The one I'm watching right now involves a woman who went to a speed dating company because she's too vapid and nutty to find a date on her own. While she was there, she decided to approach one of the speed daters outside of the parameters of the speed dating service. When she did this, the speed dater lost his marbles and bit her. Now she's suing the speed dating company for her medical bills. The representative for the speed dating company maintains that it isn't his fault she violated his contract and got bitten. This situation seems cut and dry to me and yet there is a 15 minute argument about it before the ruling is made in the most obvious way. Boss Ross says that she can't sue the speed dating company and that she needs to sue the man who bit her. As if this is rocket science. And then she has the nerve to look shocked as though it isn't the biters fault that he bit her. At the end, she'll say that she's learned never to speed date....and that's it. All she took out of that situation is not to speed date. And that thought process is exactly why she'll never find a date.

The next case is about a chicken rancher who treats his chickens like family. He is suing an animal rights activist who came to his ranch and stole four of his chickens. The activist has actually posted on her website that she was going to have a chicken redemption ceremony at this man's ranch. So he has proof that this woman at least intended to do something involving his beloved chickens. The woman claims that she was attending a conference at the time that the chickens were stolen and couldn't possibly have stolen the chickens. She says that she shouldn't be responsible for what people did in response to the information on her website. Because they can't actually prove that it was the activist who stole the chickens, the case will be thrown out. Before this can happen though, Boss Ross must weigh his options. He has to give the reasons why the activists is guilty and then come back full circle to why the case has no legs to stand on. All of this is followed up by dramatic music that makes you feel like justice has been served.

The idea of so many innocent souls being served in a court of law really puts my mind at ease and will make it a little bit easier to drift off into a relaxed sleep. Boss Ross is the man. He is keeping the dirt off of the street and making such a deep impact as a judge. He begins each episode with a personal note that all he wants is to see wrongs righted. In the midst of every case, there are many illegal acts admitted that I'm sure they don't answer for. Illegal drugs, child molestation, drunk driving, abuse, child neglect...none of these wrongs get righted by Boss Ross. These people walk out of the court room after their cases and never atone for their sleazy lives and unlawful actions. My cat, Lola, is bored to tears and has passed out in response. I can't take my eyes off of Boss Ross. He is one for the books. Any judge could only aspire to be as good as the Honorable Judge Ross.