We here at Slope’s world headquarters have never let the kids down by failing to provide this free viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
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.
Didn’t See a Single One!
Persons of Interest
As we get closer to the end of the year, we’ll have to brace ourselves for the annual onslaught of (a) “year in review” articles, tables, and graphs (b) “what’s ahead for 2024″ which will be endless predictions about forthcoming events, not a single one of which is going to happen.
In category (a), here’s a fresh one:

Discord in 2024
There’s something very broken about the American spirit today. They say that life imitates art, and judging from the growing popularity of dystopian collapse-of-the-U.S. movies coming out, it truly gives me pause. Some people, I believe, FEAR such things. Other people WANT such things. And others, and I include myself among them, are ANTICIPATING such things. This was already on my mind having viewed Leave The World Behind last week, but when I saw this trailer (below) of a big new movie, Civil War, coming out this Spring, it just brought the message home.


