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Blogs Liberty and Power Is Lysander Spooner's Ghost Working for the AARP?

Oct 1, 2006

Is Lysander Spooner's Ghost Working for the AARP?

by Liberty and Power

Is the ghost of Lysander Spooner working as an advertising executive at the AARP? Even if he isn't, the AARP's "don't vote campaign" is still delightfully subversive, even if unintentionally so.