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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.
Red Skies in the Morning
This graph makes a lot of sense: if you want your flight to leave on time, pick an early one! As the day wears on, stuff happens, and that stuff piles up into increasingly bad delays.
Singin’ the Blues
I’ve written about the Varsity Blues scandal many times, but I never followed up to find out if the slimy, greedy criminal Rick Singer got thrown into prison. Well, I’m pleased to report that he did, although I wish it was 35 years instead of 3.5……..
Oh, Baby, Baby……
There are about 8.2 billion humans on this planet, which is probably about 8.2 billion too many, but let’s set that aside. It takes a fertility rate of 2.1 to flatline that level, and we are moving from an era of grotesquely large numbers of new humans to a dying, shrinking world (particularly in the well-educated, prosperous places; impoverished shitholes are cranking out LOADS of babies still).
You May Kiss……..Your Cash Goodbye
