It's That Old Looney Tuner, Lysander Spooner

Peter Bagge | From the November 2019 issue

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Nelomasi 5 years ago

Nice one
1. Leslie the Bard 5 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.
AlmightyJB 5 years ago

I like the cut of his jib.
Chipper Morning Wood 5 years ago

Awesome. Thanks for this.
creech 5 years ago

He and Shel Richman would be best of pals had they lived in the same times.
Dillinger 5 years ago

love it.
Juice 5 years ago

Back then lots of doctors and lawyers didn't go to college, so whatever.
mad.casual 5 years ago

Needs more labels!
Mongo 5 years ago

Are you supposed to read the words first or look at the drawing first?
GroundTruth 5 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.
Eddy 5 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.
Eddy 5 years ago

Not to be confused with Rev. William Archibald Spooner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
1. MatthewSlyfield 5 years ago
  
  Spooner or later someone will confuse the two of them.
Halykan 5 years ago

I've always been a fan of ole Spoony, for being someone who was very committed to living his own principles.
Fancylad 5 years ago

Trump's next supreme court nominee should be like this.
Stephan Kinsella 5 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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