Source Citing on a Blog

As I've been telling people about this blog, a few questions have arisen.  One such question was if you still need to cite your sources in a blog.  I haven't seen any blogs with bibliographies so I went with no, but the question reminded me of all those papers written over the years in school.  So much of your paper writing time is spent refreshing yourself on MLA or APA, picking one, realizing you've just done it all wrong and fixing every single citation.  But who are these acrostic grammarians and why do they battle?

What pleasant weather for a battle to the death!

The Modern Language Association was formed in 1883 to promote language and literature learning.  The American Psychological Association was formed in 1892 to advance psychology as a science.  Of course it makes sense that these two organizations are on equal footing when it comes to grammar, right?  The truth is, they don't really fight each other because they target different fields of study.  Also, they're not nearly the only ones out there.  Just two of many trying to be the authority in writing.  And by writing, I mean all of writing, not just citations.  For example, thanks to APA, I now know I should always use an em dash rather than an en dash to signify aposiopesis (when someone can't finish a sentence because they're too emotional).  This stuff matters.  I know what you're thinking, "matters to who?"  Well first off, don't you mean "matters to whom?"  Secondly, what about all those poor people who are now missing important members of their family simply because they forgot the comma in "Let's eat, Grandma!"  You may say that's silly but apparently disagreements in the importance of punctuation led to the bolshevik revolution.  Do you want to live under the repressive government of a failed socialist society?  I didn't think so.

By the way, the example I found of aposiopesis on wikipedia uses a quotation from Darth Vader.

Oh Darth, what did I say about ending sentences in prepositions?

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Gasp!

Breath, breath!

Lord Vader is very nice man and his grammar is perfect!

Speaking of the dark side, there is a more ominous, depressing side to this whole citing sources thing.  That has to do with copyrights on images.  Apparently, there is next to nothing you can do to alter a copyrighted picture so that you're not breaking the law by posting it somewhere online.  How do reddit and imgur exist?  Maybe I should eventually go through my posts and replace all the pictures with originals once I have the skills and resources to do so.  Until then, I just have to hope the owners decide to be decent human beings and tell me to take the images down before going with legal action.

If I got sued for posting this, the irony would almost be worth it.