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SeaBassTian
04/07/09

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Next thing you know, you will have to watch what you say in Gawker comment threads lest they be used against you!
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shag_carpet_bomb
04/07/09

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Don't newspapers usually require verification of letters to the editor? If not, I've got some ghost writing to do!
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FracturedAcetabulum
04/07/09

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Yes, but what about page views? Shouldn't she get paid for page views?
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BadUncle
04/07/09

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"Coalinga" makes me giggle. So does "Air Lingus." I am: puerile.
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Smitros
04/07/09

@BadUncle:

It's not just you.

And the latter makes you pay for drinks.
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Tremonius
04/07/09

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My brother Reloj ran two shots from a video we did while back home in the great city of Bonham one year. He showed the storefronts on North Side which looked standard issue Texian and then we drove around to the alley and it was Berlin 1945. One of the buildings was exactly like a B-western storefront. The commentary on his web site was something short of your usual Chamber of Commerce boosterism.

A local found it with search and showed it to the mayor, and he protested in e-mail to Reloj, hey, lookahere, we ain't like it at all. We all upstanding citizens in a forward-thinking community here! And Reloj replied, well, your backside is showing.

A discussion at the city council followed, and the result was, that blighted alley was spruced up some. So my brother Reloj became the foremost civic improvement force in our city history.

A happy ending.
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EdgesRazor
04/07/09

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Wait a second... her rant didn't go viral until in went into print???

Now I've heard everything...
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pufflehuff
04/07/09

@EdgesRazor: Delightful!
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shostakobitch
04/07/09

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Coalinga does suck. Place stinks like the feedlot situated down the road a bit and the gas is overpriced. You're better off fueling up at Rotten Robbie's in Santa Nella.

Shoot at my house all you want, local weirdos. It'll always be "Coalingus" to me.
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tunamelt
04/07/09

@shostakobitch: Is this the stop with the Red Robin or is that Los Banos? Fuck.
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Pinekatz
04/07/09

@sample032: Not true at all. Shostakobitch has the right idea. On I-5 between Sacramento or SF and LA, stop at Santa Nella. The gas there is cheaper than anywhere you'll find in the Bay Area and its an easy off/on back to the interstate.

Anything to avoid the hells of the Central Valley, such as is Coalinga. I shudder just thinking of that place.
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LilyBlue
04/07/09

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Is there any right to privacy if you post things under, say, a pseudonym?

Or should I just get ready to pack up my stuff and move to some off-the-grid cult-commune in Montana?
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Not The Red Baron
04/07/09

@LilyBlue: I don't know about actually having rights, but I'm convinced it's the only sensible option.

I post everything under a pseudonym online. The only time I used my real name - my first Facebook account - I got burned (former girlfriend found current girlfriend and repeatedly sent her slanderous messages about me), and since then, I keep my online life and my real life as far apart as possible.
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Gwythinn
04/07/09

@Not The Red Baron: Libellous. If it's in writing it's libel, not slander.

-A Grammar Nazi
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Smitros
04/07/09

@Gwythinn:

Actually you would be more of a Lexicon Nazi.
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LilyBlue
04/07/09

@Not The Red Baron: For a second there, I thought you meant that moving off the grid was the only sensible option. But as you're posting here on Gawker, you are squarely positioned right in the center of the grid.

The grid lives on!
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badasscat
04/07/09

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While I'm totally down with the idea that anything you write in public on the internet is, well, public... is it not a little strange that this would be published as a letter to the editor?

Ok, yeah, public things are public, but anything you write is also copyrighted, whether public or not. (In the same way a band or record label that releases a record to the public still owns the copyright, so do you on anything you write.) It seems to me like this newspaper took something this girl wrote and misrepresented it for their own profit without permission. That's pretty wrong.

She should really be suing for a copyright claim, not invasion of privacy. She'd win.
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