It's That Old Looney Tuner, Lysander Spooner

Peter Bagge

Comments

[Nelomasi]

Nice one

[Leslie the Bard]

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.

[AlmightyJB]

I like the cut of his jib.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Awesome. Thanks for this.

[creech]

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

[Dillinger]

love it.

[Juice]

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

[mad.casual]

Needs more labels!

[Mongo]

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

[GroundTruth]

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.

[Eddy]

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.

[Eddy]

Not to be confused with Rev. William Archibald Spooner

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

[MatthewSlyfield]

Spooner or later someone will confuse the two of them.

[Halykan]

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

[Fancylad]

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

[Stephan Kinsella]

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.