
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.
American Tourister
I, for one, was pleased to have traveled so little last year. What a relief.
Sagging Vax
How would you like to have a business in which:
- Every person on the planet had to buy what you made;
- The government would pay for it using an infinite printing press;
- You had patent protection, creating a monopoly.
Pretty sweet, eh? Although maybe some of this is feeling a bit priced-in:

….And Be Merry
If your town is anything like mine, it has been losing all the good restaurants, left and right. Sure, the crappy mega-chains like Cheesecake Factory aren’t going anywhere, but the interesting, small places – – dying, dying, and dying. Here are some stats.
(more…) Motion Discomfort Bag
I’m short Alaska Air Group and Jet Blue already. I wanted to share seven interesting airline charts. Here are three for everyone, and the other four are in the “paid members” zone……….

