Gratuitous government.

AuthorSullum, Jacob
PositionBrief article - Book review

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"In Liverpool," New York attorney Nathan Belofsky reports, "it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store." Although puzzled readers might want a bit more explanation, that is all they learn about this weird decree in Belofsky's redundantly named compendium The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities (Perigee).

If Belofsky had devoted less space to extended quotations from statutes, regulations, and court proceedings, he might have had room to discuss the motivation for edicts like the British law against eating mincemeat pies on Christmas Day or the...

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