[blml] Complete, simple, clear laws

[Guthrie]

BLMLers in a feeding frenzy over a complex and
unclear rule. The latest is "right reservation" in
the ACBL -- and variants in other jurisdictions.
And this happens with regulation after regulation,
law after law.

If Bridge Law committees hired a child as a
consultant, what advice would they get?

Rather than bicker about their meaning it would
require less work and be better (for Bridge
players) to simplify and clarify laws and rules
and publish them in the world-wide rules of bridge
(at least as defaults).

That nobody will seriously consider this solution,
demonstrates that the law in Bridge (as in all
walks of life) has been subverted for the benefit
of lawyers and officials rather than players (and
the public).

When the new TFLB is published I fervently hope
I'll be forced to make a public retraction.

A special request: If you reply, please don't
attack me personally -- I'm merely voicing a
widely held view; and please answer the
argument -- rather than try to earn Browny points
with a nit-picking one-liner.