"I yearn for you tragically." - Yossarian, Catch-22
Libel is an interesting charge because to be accused of it, the plaintiff has to admit that they care what you think or say. I doubt McDonald's Corporation (NYCE: MCD) gives a flying grab what I say about their food - but if they did, they'd have to openly admit that they take a very small corner of the internet with a meager thirty hits a day seriously. And I think that's an ugly proposition for even the most ravenous lawyer, no matter how hard he's been beaten and kept hungry for the Kill and the Good Show. Ugly because it chinks the armor of the lawyer's Super-Egolessness. To try something so utterly inconsequential requires a fine sense of the suspension of disbelief.
The lumbering ogre doesn't mind the mice unless it's by the handful, and even then it's just a snack. So, realistically speaking, a libel suit is off the table. I won't be Banned for Life, for good or ill - because these little hamburg sandwiches are killing people by the bucketful in sad and violent ways. Arteries exploding across our nations highways, tainted meat madness and value meal murders.
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