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.

Pathetic Powell

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Ever since the psychotic criminal Jerome Powell completed the destruction of the United States by pledging trillions of buy infinite amounts of junk bonds, one would assume those instruments would do nothing but go up. (In a fit of unhinged megalomania, Powell incessantly states there is “no limit” to how much he can do).

After all, he partnered with the vermin Larry Fink, the Blackrock billionaire, to buy unlimited quantities of JNK, LQD, and dozens of other instruments which the soulless and venal Fink would sell to Powell. Absolutely disgusting. What’s curious is that these things have not been going up every day, as one might expect.

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An Overflow Of Good Converts To Bad

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I have a Shakespeare theme with the title today, which is a quote from Richard III. I am a lifelong Shakespeare lover and have been using some of my quarantine time watching film versions of some of his plays, of which I have about thirty or so in total, many of which were beautifully done. Over the weekend I was watching The Tempest 2011 with Helen Mirren, Macbeth 2015 with Michael Fassbender, and Roman Polanski’s Macbeth from 1971, controversially filmed just two years after the Manson Family tragically murdered Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child.

All good films, though I do struggle with Shakespeare’s great tragedies as I find the main protagonists very unsympathetic. Hamlet is forever looking for excuses not to act, King Lear brings ruin upon himself through his foolish actions at the start of the play but the strangest of all to my eyes is Macbeth.

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