Unclaimed Blawg Ideas #1

If you haven’t been paying attention, the blawgosphere is getting crowded, a circumstance that has many would-be blawgers asking: “What topics are still up for grabs?” It’s a good question. I’ll answer it by scouring the blawgosphere every so often and reporting back with news of unclaimed blawg ideas.

Old Natura Brevium. So far, no one has thought to name a blawg after the treatise written during the reign of Edward III that contained commentary about “the writs which were then most in use.” It was a great service in the old days and can be a great service now. Each day, the blawg can analyze a different American-style cause of action, e.g., Negligence (Day 1); Slander (Day 2); Lawsuits Arising from Spilled Coffee (Day 3); and so on. The ideal author will be someone who received high grades in his or her first-year law school classes and has a Herculean ability to stay awake. This ability will also be required of the blawg’s readers, which is why the blawg will also draw heavily on lawyer cartoons stolen from the New Yorker magazine.

The Hobblers Blawg. What are hobblers? Under old English law, they were tenants “bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse” that could be ridden toward the capital to give notice of an invasion by sea. The focus of The Hobblers Blawg will be the nation’s terror alert level. Whenever it changes color, the authors of this blawg will publish the news just as soon as they notice it on The Drudge Report. The ideal authors will be extremely busy with other things. However, if the authors suddenly find themselves with more time available for blawging, they can also post about the impending capture of Osama bin Laden. It’s a certain blawging hit!

For more unclaimed blawg ideas, stay tuned. (Source note: all quotations are from Black's Big Book of Blawg Titles, Fifth Edition.)

Comments

[Scheherazade]

How about a blawg called [sic] that snarkily points out the flaws, mistakes, and inaccuracies in legal opinions and other blawgs? I think it would be a sure hit.

[Tech Law Advisor]

I think that "Appellate Litigation" web site pretty much covers everything legal.