My favorite style of humor today is the anti-joke, and no one is better at it than Norm MacDonald. His roast of Bob Saget is legendary, and YouTube consistently knocks down any attempts to post it, but it looks like someone has obfuscated it badly enough that they’ve gotten away with it for now. So………..enjoy:
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.
The Blooper Reel
Tom Sosnoff has played a pretty big role in my life, and in advance of his 61st birthday today, a bunch of folks participated in a series of videos for him. My favorite part was the “blooper reel”, which is shown below (and, yes, I’ve owned that t-shirt for a few months, but this is the first chance I’ve had to put it to good use):
What’s Been Missing From Your Life
Me and the Market the Past Five Weeks
Interview Just Like Gartman
One of the most frequent guests in the world of financial media is the “commodity king” 
Dennis Gartman. In spite of his moniker, he chimes in far more on equities than commodities, and his nearly daily appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, the trade show circuit, or whoever else will have him, have made him a glowing success story. At least if you measure success by being repeatedly invited back to share market opinions.
As has been pointed out ad nauseam in the comments section of many a blog (particularly ZeroHedge), Mr. Gartman, in spite of his efforts, appears to be wrong far more often than right. Many would say his percentage of being wrong is something approaching 100%, although my own informal analysis puts the figure at a kinder 70% or so.
Oh, and allow me to say this before going further: those of you who feel it clever to comment that people should just do the opposite or whatever Gartman says, or that there should be a triple-inverse Gartman Fund – – you should know the identical comment has been made, oh, thousands of times already, so what may seem clever and saucy to you is, in fact, tired and boring. So save your typing, because the thought you just had isn’t original.
Anyway……….. (more…)
