UPDATE:  Simple Justice now officially lives, according to the ABA website (with the help of my friends).  Now, if all of you could just go there and click on Simple Justice once or twice (or as many more times as you would like), it would be greatly appreciated.  This isn’t cheating.  It’s affirmative action. 

The ABA has launched its new website!  This is almost as exciting as the day Avvo came out, but without the numbers.

Being primarily concerned with the welfare of humanity, I immediately went to see if Simple Justice was listed in the blawg directory.  135 Criminal Law Blawgs!  Woo Hoo!  Scroll, scroll, next page, next page.  Nothing.  Zip. Nada, zero.

Simple Justice isn’t there.  A lot of others are there.  But not Simple Justice.  So how did they list all those other blawgs and not me?  Well that can make you feel a bit inconsequential.  They’ve got Eric’s Blawg, and Andrew’s Blawg and Nicole’s.  They’ve got Grits.  They’ve got Gideon’s.  Maybe they misspelled it?  Nope.

But there’s a button on the site to submit a new blawg.  Well, here goes nothing. Ping.  “Error: You are not authorized…”  What, even their computer doesn’t like me?  Oh my god, this is bad.  This is worse than just being ignored.  Now I’m being shunned.  And blackballed.  They want nothing to do with me.  The shame.

So should any of you feel compelled to use the ABA’s new website in search of a blawg or a topic, and you just happen to notice that your favorite blawg isn’t there, well…don’t make me beg.  Ignored again.  Bummer.