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It's That Old Looney Tuner, Lysander Spooner

Peter Bagge | From the November 2019 issue

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  1. Nelomasi   6 years ago

    Nice one

    1. Leslie the Bard   6 years ago

      I love it!!! Lysander Spooner is an unsung hero of American history. Somebody should make a movie -- or a TV series -- about him, so citizens can learn more of him.

  2. AlmightyJB   6 years ago

    I like the cut of his jib.

  3. Chipper Morning Wood   6 years ago

    Awesome. Thanks for this.

  4. creech   6 years ago

    He and Shel Richman would be best of pals had they lived in the same times.

  5. Dillinger   6 years ago

    love it.

  6. Juice   6 years ago

    Back then lots of doctors and lawyers didn't go to college, so whatever.

  7. mad.casual   6 years ago

    Needs more labels!

  8. Mongo   6 years ago

    Are you supposed to read the words first or look at the drawing first?

  9. GroundTruth   6 years ago

    Nice.

    Now give him a gen-X look, make up some new names, and send this forth.

    Maybe we can get a few youngsters to open their minds a bit to options beside socialist slavery.

  10. Eddy   6 years ago

    Since this is Halloween, here's his grave site:

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18821908/lysander-spooner

    They say he rises from his grave from time to time...and leaves people alone, because of his libertarian beliefs.

  11. Eddy   6 years ago

    Not to be confused with Rev. William Archibald Spooner

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism

    1. MatthewSlyfield   6 years ago

      Spooner or later someone will confuse the two of them.

  12. Halykan   6 years ago

    I've always been a fan of ole Spoony, for being someone who was very committed to living his own principles.

  13. Fancylad   6 years ago

    Trump's next supreme court nominee should be like this.

  14. Stephan Kinsella   6 years ago

    This is really funny and perceptive. Much as I admire ole' Spooner, he was a bit of an oddball. The argument that slavery was unconstitutional was a stretch, and his arguments for patent and copyright (intellectual property) were horrendously wrong and utterly unlibertarian.

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