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By: Carolann Vero

Carolann Vero — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:03:42 +0000

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By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:44:45 +0000

I don’t recall Joe Francis ever being married to Pamela Anderson (assuming we’re talking about THE Pamela Anderson here). The guy who was in the Paris Hilton sex tapes was Rick Salomon, whom I believe Pamela Anderson did try to marry. I believe that marriage was later annulled.

By: Daniel Lebovic

Daniel Lebovic — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:38:22 +0000

Someone who is proudly “part and parrcel” of “the system” is naturally going to say whenever something goes wrong for an individual, it’s not “the system’s fault.” His inspirational messages are about as inspirational watching a train wreck. Every day I receive a message laced with platitudinous garbage from him – I wish I could get job listings without any of his B.S.. His messages generally fall into several categories, all of which betray a basic misunderstanding of how the real, as opposed to the silver-spoon world in which he finds himself, works:

1. Anything bad that happens to you, job seeker, if your fault. If you can’t find a job, it’s your fault.
2. Dwell on that fact! Suffer! (But only I, Harrison Barnes, have the right to tell you what kind of suffering is legitimate).
3. Even when it is physically demonstrated that others have caused you suffering, it’s your fault for letting it happen! You’re stupid!
4. I, Harrison Barnes, can be cynical about the legal profession – even though I have betrayed not the slightest speck evincing I know what being a good lawyer means, but you, poor peons, can’t. If you get a lousy job, it’s your fault. If you get no job, it’s your fault.
5. Self-flagellate if you can’t find a job! It’s better than asking me specific questions as to how to get a job, because I only work with the candidates who “know everything,” never show the seams, and will go on to lead lives of impeccable mediocrity. I know the type.
6. I’ll gladly take your money whilst spitting in your face as I tell you that you have no right to say the legal profession is all about superficiality and the trappings of wealth, while I, who have gotten rich off it having to decide nothing harder than whether to choose someone who got a 3.92 at Harvard over someone who got a 3.91, can grumble about how “cynical” the profession has become.

Mr. Barnes, Big Boy, I challenge you to write to me at drltoo@aol.com to explain how to reconcile the last five days’ worth of “inspirational messages” you’ve littered my mailbox with. You are taking whatever personal issues (being short and constipated, I don’t know) out on the rest of us.

And as far for the world not being unfair, the most eloquent rejoinder I can think of comes from the movie “Contact,” where a character (whom you would think “was out of a job,” and thus irrationally angry), when told “I wish the world weren’t so unfair, but it is,” replies, “Funny… I thought the world was what we make of it.”

I dare you to write back, so you can be forced to have someone to describe to you in detail the pain your messages have caused thousands of readers. Time for you to put your considerable money where your considerable mouth is.

Oh, and your saying “you had no money?” If that were true, then when you lost your money, you found a way of taking the anger of having no money out on the rest of us, once you became successful again… The worst kind jerk – someone who decides that since he was hurt by the system (although no one else can be or ever was), he must make others pay.

Come on, little man.

By: Kendrick

Kendrick — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:13:00 +0000

I normally greatly appreciate Mr. Barnes’ commentaries and extract a very valuable lesson. But, this article is a bit odd. Although I recognize its motivational intent, however, Mr. Barnes appears to be entrapped by his own personal moral dilemmas. His references to Mr. Wattles and Col. Sanders are inspiring. On the contrary, his reference to Mr. Francis is marked with contradictions, and his assaults on the legal, medical, and auto mechanics industries are confusing and unnecessary. Perhaps, Mr. Barnes experiences as an attorney were less than ideal, but does he have to soil the profession for the rest of us? All lawyers are not morally bankrupt, and why promote an entrepreneur if you disagree with his ethics? There are jet-setting, self-made millionares who are not exploiting young girls. If he dislikes the legal profession so much, why is he recruiting for it….oh, yeah, because he gets paid like his sexually-aware acquaintance Mr. Francis, his former partner who threw away a winning argument to milk his client for more dough, and the conniving mechanics, doctors, and other lawyers mentioned in his article? Mr. Barnes is showing a side of this persona that’s making me uncomfortable.