Bears – Sweet as Can Be!
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.
North of the Border
Will “Roaring Kitty” be a Billionaire?
Double T-Bone
Something has changed about the way people are driving. I’m convinced of that. Maybe it’s another element of the Fourth Turning.
A little over a month ago, I was t-boned, as I wrote about. The person who hit me was a middle-aged woman who lives in the neighborhood. She seemed nice enough – – the sort of person who might be an elementary school librarian – – but was also pretty clueless. She caused me financial and emotional damage by way of her recklessness. I’m dealing with them both to this very moment.
This Sunday morning, only a little while earlier than I am typing these very words, I was a witness to the exact same accident. A perfectly innocent man was driving across an intersection (just like I had been) and was hit full speed by a clueless middle-aged woman (just like my situation).
He didn’t do anything wrong, and she blew right through the red light. I watched ever millisecond of it, and I saw it coming well in advance of the smash-up, and my sense is that she wasn’t trying to beat the light…………..but that she’s just a dipshit. Anyway, here’s the result:
(more…)Half Bots
This is remarkable to me. As a person whose email is literally about 98% spam, I can understand how much waste and junk there is on the Internet, but the fact that bots account for a full half of Internet traffic is shocking. Between the bots and porno, I suspect only 7% of Internet usage is for actual constructive purposes.
