Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Best Posts of 2022 (1 of 6)

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Preface to All Six Segments: At the end of each year, I take hours to go through the thousands of posts from the year to gather together what I consider the very best of them. I urge you to read them, since these are the best-of-the-best, and frankly I’m surprised not only how excellent they are but how amazing the predictions turned out to be. Slope truly is the greatest undiscovered gem on the Internet, and I’m glad you’re here to make it possible. Click on any title to read the accompanying post (those marked PREMIUM remain accessible strictly to Gold and Platinum members, God bless ’em).

  • Dead-Eyed Flambé – Reflections on how people sit in restaurants staring at their phones.
  • I Understand – My response to a person outraged at the political discussion on Slope.
  • Jim’s Unlucky Number – The inimitable Jim Cramer offers up seven utter losers to his viewers.
  • Our Island Nation – I go Winston Churchill in order to inspire the bears to keep faith.
  • Incomprehensible – Some lengthy reflections on the nature of evil.
  • Better Laid Than Never – The eternal “high-speed rail” project in California.
  • Bloxheads – Watching the young lads over at /wallstreetbets get destroyed.
  • Post-Woke Culture – I’d say the title of this post pretty much says it all.

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