You d think a multi-million dollar retail chain would have the scratch to hire first class lawyers instead of the stooges they sicced on us earlier this week.

Apparently, Best Buy wasn t that delighted with the 26-page document leaked to us and the stories we wrote off it and they slapped us with what amounted to a cease-and-desist order claiming we were posting a copyrighted document.

Besides misspelling our name once and calling the stories, comments, the suit was filled with the sort of idiotic mumbo-jumbo you would expect from the law firm of Dewy, Suem, and Howe.

My favorite bit was when they said we received the document from a Best Buy Mole and then went on to use Webster s to define what a mole was. I assume this was to block any attempts by us to use the old "A Rodent Gave it To Us" defense.

In the long run Gawker Inc. decided it probably wasn t worth fighting over since the posts had already been up for nearly a week (which means it s as old as the Bible in Blog-dating) and most everyone who cared to has already read it. In other words, we caved and have deleted the following posts from our servers:

Best Buy 360 Launch Day Details
Best Buy's Launch Day Plans
Best Buy's 360 Accessory List and Prices
Xbox 360 Top Games Prediction
Best Buy Expects $29 Million Launch Day
Only 12 Best Buy Opening at Midnight for 360
Best Buy Files: The Official 360 Document
The Official 360 Launch Titles

If these are the legal minds at Best Buy, no wonder Jack Thompson feels like he can bully them around.