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Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal
First time accepted submitter Guy From V writes "Charles Carreon, zany lawyer and poster-child for the Streisand Effect (sorry Babs) for his lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Mattew Innman last year in his original role as legal counsel for Funnyjunk, as reported by ArsTechnica, seems to have finally called it quits. In other news, the River Styx has reportedly dropped below 32 degrees Fahrenheit."
The Forbes site linked to in TFS is quite funny. There's a hilarious article on why insider trading is a good thing. In some ways it out-onions the onion.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Bear in mind, he's a lawyer. His job involves selling an argument and he's rarely concerned with who's actually in the right. This is just rhetoric.
I'm hesitant to dismiss him as insincere just because of the sheer, utter, insanity (from the perspective of, say, a value-rational human being who wants to make money by being a lawyer) of his behavior in pretty much all aspects of the case beyond the first opening shot or two (where he might actually have been writing demand letters for a client, just a day on the job).
A good con-man knows when to skip town(which was a hell of a long time ago in this case, there were plenty of situations where he could have just backed down and let the internet's almost-nonexistent attention span solve the problem for him; but instead he doubled down on the crazy). It's possible that Carreon is just a bad con-man; but that level of not knowing when to skip town reeks of a true believer.
Charles Carreon. You're a fucking asshole.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
You know that's not true, and is just another Republican malfunction. It's actually really good that the Republicans live in a fantasy world made of straw-men though, it means they'll be on the scrap-heap of history very soon outside of the deep south.
We need a second party to counter the Democrats, but the Republicans are too far gone for that role.
I just registered "rapeutated.com".
You are welcome on my lawn.
Sorry for the horrible analogy:
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Required reading for internet skeptics
Yes, by morons for morons that don't know what it is.
I don't think he's Buddhist like Siddhartha Gautama. I think he's Buddhist like Whole Foods.
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