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.

Dialing Up the Censorship

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Forget the charts. Forget the market. Set aside the P & L. Let’s talk about censorship.

In my experience as the proprietor of this little corner of the web, I have found there are about three levels of push-back that I receive.

The first, rarest level is from Slopers themselves. This is an extremely liberal (in the classic sense) and tolerant bunch. It’s a pretty free-wheeling place here on Slope. As such, if there is ever a time when I get scolded by folks here, I know I’ve seriously crossed the line.

I actually think it’s only happened once, which is when I – – heaven help me – – urinated on a giant poster of Janet Yellen and posted the video. For some peculiar reason, a few people found this in bad taste, and I quickly deleted the post. In the nearly 17 years of Slope’s existence, I think that’s the only time that I’ve censored myself, after I realized that, OK, yeah, I guess there ARE limits. (Hey, it could have been worse.)

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Love Lines

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Sigh. OK, I’ll preface this once again and say that I have been in a so-called mixed-race couple my entire adult life, so that’s my disclaimer for not coming off as a total douchebag. Having offered that free pass, I’ll say once again that it’s becoming ridiculous how every single commercial, advertisement, and movie is going super-Woke. Check out this latest movie from Amazon. Kindly note the ecstatically happy couples are “mixed” (black/white on the left and Asian/black on the right) whereas the miserable ones in the middle are the oh-so-terrible white/white couple. Just sayin’ it’s getting kind of obvious.