Blowback at Overstock.com

The Wall Street Journal Online reports this afternoon that John Byrne, former CEO of GEICO and father of the world's most despicable CEO -- Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com -- is thinking seriously of stepping down as chairman of sonny boy's company.

The word for this is "blowback." All the crazy conspiracy theories circulated by the younger Mr. Byrne are beginning to take effect -- except not the way he wanted.

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