BarkingDogs.net
Section One:
Quieting Your Own Dog
Section Two:
Personally Silencing Your Neighbor's Dogs
Section Three:
The Barking Laws and the Courts
Section Four:
To Quiet Your Home Town
Section Five:
The Noise Activist's Guide
Section Six:
More Info on Chronic Barking
Section Seven:
The Harm Done
Section Eight:
The Cause of the World's Chronic Barking and Biting Epidemics
Section Nine:
The Cure for the Barking Epidemic and All of Our Dog Related Problems
Section Ten:
The Barking Dog News
Section Eleven:
Barking Dogs YouTube
Sec Twelve:
Barking Dogs Facebook
Sec Thirteen:
The Barking Dogs Bulletin Board
Sec Fourteen:
About This Website
Sec Fifteen:
The Kitchen Sink
The term catch-22 originated with Joseph Heller's book of the same name. In Heller's story of World-War II bomber crews, there was a rule that an airman could be grounded, and thereby saved from a likely death in action, if he was crazy. However, first the crazy man had to ask to be grounded, which amounted to asking to be withdrawn from a life-threatening situation, which was then taken as proof that he was sane. Therefore, either way, you still had to fly. That was the catch, which they called catch-22.
Since then, the term catch-22 has come to be associated with any legal provision, like the multiple house-hold laws, in which you can do this, but only if you first do that. However, since you can't actually do the second thing, you really can't do the first thing either, other than in some vague, theoretical sense.
This page is part of the Law section of barkingdogs.net