As much as I love movies, it’s incredible that I’m only watching Patton now (particularly since war movies are a favorite of mine). What’s amusing about the opening speech is how cleaned up it was for the movie. The actual speech, which you can read here, is, shall we say, a lot more colorful than the movie’s version. (more…)
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.
Churning the Headlines
Reading MarketWatch makes my head spin sometimes (that’s part of the fun of it I guess).
Paul B Farrell (May 9, 2014):
10 peaking megabubbles signal impending stock crash (Fed driven rally is about to end badly)
Paul B Farrell (July 3, 2014):
Ha ha ha…
Palo Altan Provokes WW3
Palo Alto native son James Franco stars in a forthcoming movie, The Interview, which the mentally not-so-stable government of North Korea has already declared as “an act of war.” The plot revolves around two guys who seek to assasinate Kim Jung “Tubby” Un. Here’s the trailer:
Does Barron’s Secretly Hate AJC?
As I was dashing through the airport Sunday evening, I saw the cover of Barron’s, and of course my eyes went straight to the elfin figure near the center: our own Abigail Joseph Cohen, permabull extraordinaire. I dunno, I keep thinking the art director at the newspaper just doesn’t like this little woman, because she looks like a forthcoming villain from Game of Thrones.


