Some people celebrate their high school graduation by going to the beach and getting mindlessly drunk for a week. Others accumulate significant amounts of cash from various well endowed friends.


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Please to be pardoning my general state of just-showeredness.


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Shit, it's almost one and I haven't started reviewing macroeconomics yet. But I suppose that writing this short story sort of made up for it?

Title: The Tourists' War: A Melancholy, If Slightly Cynical, Retrospective
Author: V.M. Bell
Summary: Once upon a time, the United States went to war with Iran. The catalyst for conflict was ( Read more... )

I think this chapter on the international monetary system has been the most difficult to understand - while taking notes, I filled three entire sheets of paper with supply and demand graphs just so I could visualise what happens when the U.S. government spends recklessly (aggregate demand grows, purchases increase, currency supply shifts outward, ( Read more... )

I had a massive squee!moment yesterday when I learned that LiveJournal released an Edit Journal Privacy, which lets you alter the security level of multiple entries at once, for paid users. I'm still in the middle of converting this journal to mostly friends-only (what is and isn't is delineated in some detail at the very bottom of the official ( Read more... )

Title: Great, Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
Author: V.M. Bell
Disclaimer: Title stolen from Patrick Wolf's "To The Lighthouse." Was so not in the mood for creativity at 2:30 am. Any errors in economic theory are solely mine.
Summary: The United States is embroiled in a global conflict with China, its adversary from the East, and George ( Read more... )

A student-written question that I found pinned to the bulletin board of my psychology classroom. Enjoy, flist -

This city is the capitol of France?

a. Amsterdom
b. Berling
c. Mancestor
d. London

Signing off, V.M. Bell

Dear Libertarian Staff Writer,

Thank you for submitting your article, "Why the Left is Wrong About the Minimum Wage," to the December issue of the school newspaper. We have quite a history together, and as always, your pretensions are clearly on display. However, there are a few things I would like to say:

• The words Democrat and Democratic ( Read more... )

Or, another reason to love AP English: we are currently reading Molière's The Miser, and I didn't even finish the first act before I started lolling at my desk:

LA FLÈCHE. I'm talking...I'm talking to my hat ( Read more... )

As per mllereddeath's request. *smiles sweetly*