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.

TACO Strikes Again!

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There were two big pieces of trade news over the weekend. First, your hero granted China YET ANOTHER “pause” on tariffs of 90 days, and at this point, let’s just accept the fact the Tubs is going to keep extending and pausing until he drops dead. TACO has struck yet again, because the man’s word means as much as his first two failed marriages, and the performative “Liberation Day” nonsense (complete with all the characters from Sesame Street’s song “Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood?) was clearly nothing more than a cruel joke.

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Logan’s Run

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“As the images of his own history twisted and ripped their way through the flames in front of him, Wesley Williams somehow knew that he had taken the right path after all. Maybe the trail had been laid out for him all along from the day he was born, and it was simply up to him whether to keep marching forward in the right direction. Wesley was here now. In spite of all his shortcomings, all his bad choices, and all the times he had missed the mark and felt ashamed, he knew in his heart he was still where he was meant to be. Gazing across the distance at his wife’s eyes – those tender, loving eyes that he had fallen in love with when he was just a boy – he knew he had never left the trail on which he belonged, even though it was impossible from day to day to know for sure where the markers would be. Somehow, he had managed to stay on the path where he knew he needed to be, even if his own foolhardiness had put his fate at risk. For reasons he could not comprehend, he had been spared his own oblivion by the pathway’s power.” – Solid State, chapter 73

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