
On the Hook

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.

Just one time, it would be nice to see Mississippi be on some list which isn’t something bad.

I dubbed them the “Accidental Beneficiaries of Covid.” How the mighty have fallen!

There was a time that I bought the line we all get fed about private equity firms, which is that they bring their intelligence and human capital into inefficient companies to maximize value. Turns out that’s a huge load of crap, and in fact these private equity firms are basically Evil Incarnate, as described in great detail in the book Plunder. Anyway, here is a Hell’s Gallery of Satans for your perusal:

