Law Humor

Well, why not.

Here's just a partial list of what this election year has offered so far (and it's only mid-October):

• An attack ad run by a candidate for coroner in Orleans Parish portrayed the incumbent coroner as Dr. Frankenstein.


• In the California GOP Senate primary, the Fiorina campaign ran an ad featuring a "demon sheep."


• Whether or not one candidate waxes his back became an issue in a Florida primary.


• Nevada election officials implemented a rule requiring anyone wearing a chicken suit to stay at least 100 feet away from any polling place.


• Elvis Presley is running for governor of Arkansas.


• The Democratic Senate nominee in South Carolina suggested he would create jobs by employing people to make a line of action figures featuring himself.

• A clown was elected to the Brazilian legislature.


• Another clown has been running ads trying to convince Americans she is not a witch.

and now,

• The Naked Cowboy has announced he is running for president.

The Naked Cowboy, as you probably know, generally hangs out in Times Square playing a guitar while wearing only briefs, boots and a cowboy hat.  He has also appeared here two or three times, once when he sued the company that makes M&Ms (they dressed M&Ms up the same way), and more recently because of a cease-and-desist letter he sent to the Naked Cowgirl.  Last week, he held a press conference (also in Times Square) to announce he had decided to run for president.

Note the Obama-style logo on the podium.

The Cowboy, also known as Robert Burck, said that he was a member of (can you guess?) the Tea Party movement, and had registered as a Republican in Ohio.  He said he was running "in defense of individual liberty" and supported tax cuts, free markets, immigration reform, and a number of other disappointingly serious-sounding issues.

In what is probably a good move if he hopes to be taken seriously, Burck got a haircut and, thankfully, wore pants for the announcement.

To the Brazilian who apparently thought that by writing about the landslide election victory of an illiterate clown in that country, I was suggesting that the American political process is somehow superior to the one in Brazil, please see above.