Early in the semester I had the brilliant idea to subcontract the Bluebooking of my seminar paper to an eager law review member who had no life and would appreciate the $10 + 12-pack of MGD I would offer for the privilege.

Somewhere along the way I forgot to write that down. Now I'm doing it myself and don't even have the MGD to show for it.

I'm sure the idiocy of the Bluebook has been adequately described elsewhere on the web. so let me just file a short concurring opinion: The Bluebook is idiotic. How we, as Americans, can have such elegant Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and such dreadful, illogical rules for citations is beyond me.

The worst part of the Bluebook is the maddening inconsistency that makes most of the fiddly rules about when to use small caps or italics useless, since they mean different things depending on what type of source material is being cited. Does that not seem stupid to you? If you're on UCLA L. Rev., don't answer, because I know it will cause the fabric of time-space in your immediate vicinity to collapse.

27 Nov 05