Myths & Legends

🌵 This is the fun section. Entries here are satire and tall tale. Where a real-world fact appears, it is sourced at the bottom of the page.

Every frontier has its creatures. Some live in the sagebrush, some live in committee meetings, and one lives mostly in press releases. This field guide catalogs them.

The field guide

Specimen	Classification	Status
Lock the Jackalope	Lepus cornutus libertatis, the horned hare of liberty	Rare, wary, well-antlered
The Common Sense Lizard	Lacerta sensus communis	Endangered
The Good Idea Fairy	Nymphula memorandum	Invasive; population exploding
The "Assault Weapon"	Terribilis aspectus ("frightening of appearance")	Legally defined in some states; biologically indistinct

Planned entries (stubs, coming soon)

1. The Commissar (Bureaucratus perpetuus): the Good Idea Fairy's larger, meaner cousin. stub
2. The Gun-Show Loophole: frequently reported, never photographed. stub
3. The Ghost Gun: said to be invisible, untraceable, and assembled from thin air. stub
4. The High-Capacity Clip: a creature whose very name is a misidentification. stub
5. The Free Lunch: endlessly promised, never once sighted. stub
6. The Temporary Tax: a creature of astonishing longevity. stub
7. The Bureaucrat's Permit Hare: breeds only on June 31. stub
8. The Wolpertinger and the Rasselbock: Lock's Old World cousins (real folklore). stub
9. The Fiscal Note Phantom: appears only after the bill passes. stub
10. The Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Who Just Wants to Be Left Alone: Lock's neighbor and a fellow 4th Amendment enthusiast. stub
11. The Ranger's Field Manual: how to spot, protect and encourage Common Sense Lizards in your own town. stub
12. The Firebird (Zhar-ptitsa): a real Russian fairy-tale creature, and what Russian folklore teaches about tyrants. stub