Colloquial Douchebaggery

JD/PhD 2L on douchebags:

"I think the bluebook is the height of colloquial douchebaggery."

Citation Salutation

For those who are not avid Above the Law readers (ok, let's be honest, if you have stumbled upon this little corner of the blogosphere, ATL is probably already part of your daily routine 100 times over)... but, just in case you missed this, it seems worthy of highlight:

Quote of the Day: Judge Posner Benchslaps the Bluebook

By DAVID LAT[N]eedless to say, I have not read the nineteenth edition. I have dipped into it, much as one might dip one’s toes in a pail of freezing water. I am put in mind of Mr. Kurtz’s dying words in Heart of Darkness — ‘The horror! The horror!’ — and am tempted to end there.

— Judge Richard Posner, in a scathing Yale Law Journal review of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed.).