Saturday, August 26, 2006

Nominations Are Being Accepted For Understatement of the Year

My nominee is this passage from a Floyd Norris column yesterday in The New York Times, discussing the latest legal strategems of Overstock.com chief executive/conspiracy theorist/journalist-taunter/short-and-analyst-suer/"miscreant"-blamer Patrick Byrne:

"Mr. Byrne is not especially comfortable with the idea that honest people can disagree."

© 2006 Gary Weiss. All rights reserved.

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