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Why bother with mediation when you have the Internets?

Tomorrow, I start scouring the want ads in our local legal daily newspaper because a new website has rendered my mediation skills obsolete.   SideTaker.com is certain to revolutionize dispute resolution in the age of Web 2.0 and the Internets.

Fighting with your significant other? Who’s right and who’s wrong? Air it out anonymously while letting people of the world give you advice and make the decision on who should apologize.

I mean, isn’t dispute resolution all about proving you’re right and they’re an idiot?  And who better than to determine who “should apologize” than random strangers with nothing better to do than eat Cheetos in their underwear and surf the web?  I’m sure they’re even running the website through Google’s useful Klingon translator. Because we know how pesky it is to have read things in English.

And listen to this great advice:

Your girl is a skank. Move on and put this trailer trash skeezer out of your mind.

Stay with each other and never have kids. Remove yourselves from the gene pool.

[That woman] is crazy. Run for the hills, dude.

I can’t compete.  Wish me luck, because the legal job market is terrible.  I wonder if Starbucks is hiring?

Hat tip to Above the Law and Legal Blog Watch (where I saw it first), but also a nod to my friend Diane Levin, who scooped me 3 days ago.

10 Sep 08 | ADR, Eye-roller, Mediation, Rants

One Response to “Why bother with mediation when you have the Internets?”

  1. Diane Levin | September 10th, 2008 at 7:37 am

    I may have scooped you, but your post is way funnier. Good stuff — everything from the link to a Klingon translator, images of underwear-clad Cheetos-eating web surfers, caustic wit, and the icing on the cake — a Bushism in the title. I’m jealous, Chris!

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