
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.
Over the Sides!
In honor of D-Day (it’s June 6, remember?) here’s a favorite clip. This has a special place in Slope history, since “Let ’em burn” we considered as dangerous to utter as playing Chocolate Rain. Those days are, sadly, long gone.
Internecine Spats
Reflecting on yesterday, it seems that the entirety of the world’s markets was guided with little more than this:

Internal Repetition Service
No one likes getting mail from the IRS. I’m not different, and I suspect that you, like me, has a heart that skips a beat when one of those love letters shows up in his mailbox.
I’ve become numb to it, however. Why? Simple: because I get the same two letters, month after month, and year after year, for years. One letter looks like this:

The Lords of War

