Old-time Slopers will recognize I used to feature insane tidbits of pop culture from time to time, so let’s enjoy a bit of the old Slope before the work week begins, shall we?
From The Discount Bin
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.
Louisiana Burning
Visual cues prompt me to think. Sometimes it’s a photograph. Sometimes a chart. Today, it was a map: specifically, a map of my birthplace, which is the impoverished, crime-ridden, dying little town of Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Rides to Avoid
Up, Up, and Away!
Not that anyone seems to care anymore, but still, it’s interesting to see how gargantuan this is getting. With the just-now-passed “budget”, this sucker is going to explode to $36 trillion real soon now.
RDDT IPO BFD
Much has been made of the big “pop” that IPO Reddit had on Thursday, as if that somehow heralded a new era if initial public offerings. Meh, I don’t think so. Reddit has done nothing but lose money since its creation, with cumulative losses approaching $800 million (but at least their CEO is nicely compensated, whose last annual salary was something like $120 million). Simply stated, it’s a garbage business, and some poor schlub is already down 20% from his purchase on Thursday.
