Campaigning for any election can certainly be a battle, but it can all be for naught if you’ve been in a real battle. In Kentucky, you can not run for governor if you’ve been involved with a duel. In fact, it’s so serious the issue has been included in the oath of office which states, [...]

Voting is inherently American. We’ve literally been doing it longer than we’ve been a country. Sure, not all of us have always been able to do it, but we slowly came around to dropping those barriers. But that doesn’t mean that you have all day to vote, especially not in Alabama. According to official voting [...]

There are few things in life that are truly free, but the weather normally is counted in that group. In the winter, that means shoveling the snow, in the summer that means free car washes when it rains. And if you’re enterprising enough, old Ma Nature can provide a fair bit of water for your [...]

In the Alabama Criminal Code, there is one section that is sure to raise a couple of questions. Questions like, “Can a law be that specific?” and “Huh, are dominoes dangerous when mixed with billards outside of carefully controlled environments?” I speak, of course, of section 34-6-12 which goes as follows: “In counties having populations [...]

In Missouri, the law is quite clear – you can have yellow butter or white margarine, but yellow margarine is just not welcome. Today the idea seems quite insane, but when the law was originally created, around 1895, it was actually pretty common. Missouri law makers were trying to protect the products of state dairy [...]

photo by Jim Sneddon While false teeth are not used as widely today as they once were, there are still plenty of people out there who say, “Forget about it, just pull ‘em out and give me some fake ones.”  Aren’t there?  Sure, lots of people do that!  Otherwise why would there be so many [...]

Well this is the one you’ve all been waiting for. Indecent Exposure! While not so much strange as it is funny that it had to be made into a law, it covers just about everything that deals with sex that you would think of outside of hugging and kissing. No intercourse, no sexual conduct, no [...]

The boardwalk is always such a nice place to relax on a sunny day, but don’t get caught sleeping on a bench there, especially in Delaware. Not only is it illegal to sleep on the benches, it’s also illegal to pretend that you’re sleeping. The full text says “No person shall sleep, lie or occupy [...]

Oregon sure had a lot of crazy laws, but this one struck me as the strangest. It is unlawful to be associated with a horse tripping event or a bear wrestling exhibition. Does that sound as unorthodox to you as it does to me? This isn’t even a part of some overarching “no animal cruelty” [...]

So you’re living in Nebraska and you want to get married. Great. You and your fiancee are at least seventeen. Good so far. Oh, wait a second, one of you already has AIDS. Sorry, you can’t get married now, at least not in Nebraska. That’s right, if you have a venereal disease you can’t marry [...]