Sitting Judges are Usually Assholes...
Why I thought to think this, I have no idea. Just one of those random, drive-by thoughts, I suppose but one I believe to be true. Fortunately, I haven't had the pleasure of speaking with a judge lately but most memories I have of good old boy, southern appointed judges seem to be filled with images of sour-faced, arrogant, old people whose main pleasure in life consists of speaking down to people from their little wooden bench.
That being said...I have met a couple of genuinly regular person type judges who simply treated their work as a job and not an appointment to pass God's judgment.
But I digress.