Few things pain me more than to read about yet another frivolous law suit tying up the Justice system while someone (in this case, a company) attempts to show off their big giant balls (of cash – uh-hum) and pound the little guy out of existence.

On the surface, this is about claiming for a common word in the English language, “monster” – which in and of itself has my “Ridiculous Meter” pegged-out. What’s next? The cutsie little puppet on Sesame Street? Should we just start referring to him as “Cookie” rather than “Cookie Monster”? Should we just refer to the job search site as “.com” rather than Monster.com? How is it we’ve come to this point? Give me a break.

Of course that’s not all there is to this. Below the shallow, transparent surface, is a not-so-well disguised a very real attempt to put someone out of business – to put people out of work, and to tie things up in litigation, pushing the little guy out of business by directly and indirectly forcing them to pay through the nose for the exorbitant legal costs while all this gets tied up in a legal pissing match.

This is complete and utter bs and on a personal level, I would urge any of you who rely on an energy drink to get your day going to find someone other than Hansen Beverage Co. to get your fix.