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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

151. I'm a retired attorney and I once worked in a court system,

so I've seen a lot of crazy shit. Every nutball pro se litigant who (inevitably) loses his case claims the system was rigged against him - whereas the truth, without fail, is that he lost because (a) he had a lousy case to begin with (if his case hadn't sucked he'd have been able to find a lawyer willing to take it), and (b) he didn't know what the hell he was doing. He didn't follow the rules of procedure; filed lengthy, poorly-written and largely irrelevant briefs late; persisted in re-filing briefs and pleadings even after he was told he couldn't, and generally wasted the time of an already-overworked judge and court staff. These guys obsess over some perceived wrong to the point of near-lunacy, and instead of getting a useful hobby or a job, take their obsession and worry it like a dog with a bone until some exasperated judge finally tells them to get the hell out of his courtroom. In the old days they'd write loony letters to the editor; now they get on the internet, create a blog and use it to complain about the rigged system and the corrupt judges who evilly deprived them of justice.