economy silliness

I finished reading Making Money by Terry Pratchett last night (four the fourth, fifth? time) and have come to the conclusion that we need Moist Von Lipwig to rework the economy.

Especially California's.

They're handing out IOUs. My parents get money from the government to subsidize my brother and my housing. I don't know if they're going to get IOUs, but if they do my brother and I may have to move back home.

All we need to do is grab Moist, give him a neat hat that's gold and drop him into the Legislature. A week max and we've got our budget, government reforms, new spending procedures and a way to actually raise enough money without it being ridiculous. Not only that, he'd make it so that the legislature would agree on it without realizing what the hell just happened.

No one would be happy, of course, except the people who aren't politicians, but at least we'd have something to work with.

Then Obama would snatch him up and put him to work on the global economy. If that's not something where sizzle requires selling I don't know what does.

Meanwhile Captain Carrot would be sent to deal with the Taliban.

Fantasy Novel Exam

According to the site, if you get one yes then you should ditch the novel, however some of the questions I think are just silly in regards to that. (Like the planed series ones)

The Exam

1. Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages? No.
2. Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage? Alec is a young noble with known parentage and so is everyone else.
3. Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it? Nope. No kings for the wizards.
4. Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy? That requires a supreme bad guy, doesn't it?
( the rest of the quiz )

This guy was obviously biased against some particular writers. I think I shall try to write a test that's more neutral. ( Link to the quiz here