why you cannot be trusted

or, an argument in favour of gun control

This evil clown has nothing on the rest of you all:

A recent survey:
They report that more than 80,000 Americans needed to be treated in hospital for injuries caused by lawn mowers in 2004.

If 80, 000 Americans have injured themselves in the act of gardening, can they be trusted with anything?

--PentWhistle

when time is money

an evil clown's treatise on currency.

Time = Money
Money = Time

Don't believe it? It's the foundation of our economic system.

People are paid weekly, biweekly, or monthly in denominations of dollars per hour and dollars per year.

dollar per year. That is an equation of money and time.
$30000/year
1 year = $30 000

The insidious measure is the calculation of interest, calculating money owed based on the elapsing of time, usually in terms of a percentage of the principal.

Interest is charged on loans, investments, taxes, deposits, mortgages, and countless other interactions. Paying for elapsing time...

May as well charge us for the air we breathe at this point, so ridiculous it is.

--PentWhistle

what fools

April 2nd is ever the day for Frightful Fools

In case you felt that the Foolishness of the First and the spring-blown wind-bags manage to fill the well with frolick to make up for the mundanity of the rest of the year's day-to-day trudgery.

but, alas, it is not to be. For foolishness, and bending the arrogant, egocentric, hubristic over for a fleet foot up the fundament is a duty, all year, every day.

to begin, a boot to arrears:

All this talk about security - what do we mean, exactly?
Has it evolved from the Latin securus, meaning "free from care?"
Of course not. Look how much we care about our security.
Perhaps it has evolved from the Latin securis, meaning "[headman's] axe."
that's much more in keeping with the "security culture" that breeds around us.

You ain't fooling me with your fast-talking, head-spin doctors.

If fools be wise, they care not for your axiom of security.

--PentWhistle
securis