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.

Eat the Rich

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Oh, this is going to be good. I’ll be watching this one tonight. Of course, I’ve written about Varsity Blues before, such as here. One huge irony for me is that my beloved son was welcome with open arms to Stanford legitimately, and he’s already completely transcended it. Maybe one day I’ll write about it, but not now. I’m proud of my boy, though, and no bribes were involved. (Only because the crude photoshop of me as a bodybuilder yielded nothing but disastrous results with the admissions committees of our once-great republic).

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Deja Screw

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I seriously cannot believe these GameStop fanboys.

So last month they were all doing chest bumps as they drove the stock to $513, only to see it collapse to $40 and linger there. Then, on Wednesday, GME went bananas again. I didn’t know if I could stomach looking at /wsb, but I peeked, and sure enough, they were all ecstatic and predicting GME’s ascent this time would be $1,000. The reason? Big. Round. Number.

Indeed, just last night, there was this item:

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