It’s heartening to see this dreadful airline, which charges you extra just for breathing the fetid cabin air, is heading for the toilet. The name is Spirit Airlines, and the oh-so-ironic ticker symbol is SAVE.
Terrible Experiences Matter
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.
One Coin to Rule Them All
The Secret is Out
Even though I’ve written about the company before, I had sort of stopped thinking about Victoria’s Secret. That is, until this afternoon, when we saw this happen:
Book Report
I have written about one of my favorite books, The Fourth Turning, many times here on Slope. I was surprised to learn that an updated volume, The Fourth Turning is Here, came out last year.
I bought it immediately, of course, because the original book is over a quarter century old, and I certainly wanted to read the latest thoughts from Mr. Neil Howe. He has moved the goalposts a bit, but I think that’s understandable.
In the 1997 book, his conjecture was that the Fourth Turning would be wrapping up around 2025, but now he thinks this period of crisis probably has a decade to go, or thereabouts.
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