complicated and everybody needs to understand how they can protect themselves in this illegal world.
(HD): In your book you mention some "wacky laws" p.eg. in Statewide which is in Delaware -the state were our newspaper is distributed- is against the law to pawn a wooden leg. Why do you think all these "wacky laws" exist nowadays?
(JI): Well, maybe sometimes it's so we can laugh. But more importantly I think people had special issues. Politicians and they made their personal life become a public law. Some of those happened that way or they might have been outgrown those concerns and never taken them out of the books.
(HD): Don't you think sometimes some of the "wacky laws" are not so wacky?. E.g. (in Rehoboth Beach) "whispering is illegal" and I think is a very useful law, don't you?
JI: No. They are only unique sometimes. Some of them make sense. but than you also have to ask "Should it be a law? Would you go to jail? Or should it be a policy where at least it's not a good idea but it doesn't have to be sometimes.
(HD): When you refer to the "state things", Who did create those "state things"?
(JI): Those are just for fun. Just like state rocks, the state flowers, the state songs. People just don’t realize that the people have adopted, it’s more information the states just adopted the state rock. That kind of thing. It’s more of a fun concept.
(HD): Some Spanish women who I talked about your book and especially the Spanish law that you mention "Men must do half of the housework", asked me if you know what is the punishment for men who do not
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