It’s The Law

Legal experts will tell you that one of the problems with laws is that there are too many of them. Legislative dockets are constantly bulging with bills, and amendments, and amendments to the amendments straining to be enacted into law. To aggravate the problem, there are thousands upon thousands of old laws kept on the books which have long since lost any semblance of meaning and purpose. For example, the State of Maryland still has a law on the books which makes it illegal to hold one’s nose longer than a second. In North Carolina it is illegal to plow a cotton field with an elephant. In Portland, Oregon, it is against the law to roller skate in a public…