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.

Complete Cultural Saturation

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Well, the goofy Bay Area I live in has become even goofier. Cultural saturation in this everyone-deserves-to-be-a-billionaire loony bin has found its way even to children’s books. In this guide to the alphabet, the letter “I”, for example, is used for the all-important words “investing” and “Internet” (and, in a nod to reptile-loving neckbeards, “Iguana”). Sigh.

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Great Deformation Drinking Game

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My adoration of David Stockman’s book The Great Deformation was, I hope, made abundantly clear with my extensive review of the tome (and, judging from my Amazon Associates page, an astonishing number of folks bought the book, including one chap who bought thirteen copies!). One of the charms of the book is its colorful language. For no particular reason, I dreamed up a drinking game based on the book; and, given the future that the book predicts, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to be fully inebriated for the days ahead. Thus: (more…)

Panic Goes to Audio

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They say there’s a first time for everything, and that applies to me today – – – although not very dramatically: I’ll be spending a portion of the afternoon doing my first Audible, Inc. session recording my book, Panic Prosperity and Progress (which, for those of you who don’t know about it, is described here………..). I’ve been delighted at the reception the book has received (Amazon has 19 reviews, last time I checked, and the average review is the highest 5-star rating. Anyway, I’ll be doing many recording sessions, because I’m told I’ll need to read for about 40 hours to get through all the sessions……….see ya later.

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Me So Proud

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Most of you read my review of David Stockman’s Great Deformation last weekend. Our own beloved BDI goaded me into reading it (and I’m grateful he did), but BDI kicked it up a notch by reaching out to David Stockman to share the review with him. Lo and behold, I now find my review on his home page. I guess it’s a little odd to be star-struck by the Director of the OMB in Reagan’s White House, but I’m a child of the 80s, after all. Thank you, BDI!

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