The Federal Reserve is an organization pretty much explicitly intended to defraud the population and prop up the political élite. Alas, said élite still messes up so blatantly at times that the Fed has to break its own completely rigged laws to support them. Like, if you're going to be parasites anyway, at least make it legal for you to do so, otherwise people will get so caught up in legal details that they miss the fact that it's all a big fraud anyway. But that's of course more wind in their sails.

Some cultures value gift-giving highly, and the more expensive the gift, the more virtuous the act. Here it's illegal to give away something that costs more than a trivial sum of money.

It is exceedingly expensive to be a poor peasant these days, I probably couldn't afford enough land to graze even a sickly, lonely old cow

I call it "Dancing without music" - sure, you may call it an epileptic seizure but that's because you lack the soul of a poet.

Well, well, well, looks like the People's State of Canada doesn't have enough gun laws.

I tried to play air hockey once but they wouldn't let me bring the stick onto the plane.

Someone so stupid it defies conventional definitions might just be an oxy-moron.

It's not "greed" to try and improve one's goods and services or lower their prices to attain more wealth. "Greed" is using means other than persuasion and economic competition to extract more wealth from people than they otherwise would've given freely. You know, like taxes, government-guaranteed monopolies, and licensing requirements, all enforced by threats of violence.

Office work in modern companies becomes a lot more bearable once you learn to stop expecting success and to start giggling at the little (and large) failures that you predicted and weren't allowed to prevent. Cherish the Collapse, lads, it'll be with us for a while yet.

Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

You know that a labeling system for nutritional guidelines is bunk when it tries to tell you organic pork sausages are exactly as unhealthy as chocolate-covered popcorn.