Better Misinformation Proposal #31

The Proposal: Settle the score once and for all with a reality TV show to decide who is the ultimate swing voter. Whichever demographic group wins will determine the outcome of all future elections.

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Better Misinformation Proposal #22

The Proposal: People argue over basic questions of fact. Why not give everyone what they want and eliminate the cause of discord? We create a news reference website through which people can set their preferences and receive only comforting facts.

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Stoneslide Media Announces Program to Improve Voter Engagement in Presidential Election

Politics is all lies, or what might politely be called stories. Who better to fix it than fiction writers?

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Better Misinformation Proposal #2

The Proposal: Increase voter attention and engagement by having beautiful naked people reenact stump speeches and debates. Then use the power of a love story to bring the nation together.

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The One Thing You Should Do before the Election

The presidential election season is heating up. Partisan emotions are reaching a boil, and many of us are filled with a passionate intensity. The comment cannot hear the commenter. Yet the election is more than three months away. You need to do something with all that energy. You want to make a difference in this […]

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The Kids Are to Blame

The Stoneslide Corrective saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, “Kids who hunt, fish, and trap don’t mug little old ladies.” We wondered briefly if this claim was true. But the research to prove or disprove the claim exceeded our attention span, and we accepted the generalization in the way we accept so […]

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The Miracle of Extinction

We humans may exert our ultimate efforts to burn, strafe, destroy, sow with chemically altered salt, bury, and/or trash, and something will live on, even if it’s only a sea of purple goo and the insects that can raft on that swell.

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The Great Recession Is a Great Reason to Celebrate

Misunderstanding is the cause of so much pain. We at The Stoneslide Corrective would like to correct one misunderstanding that has become rampant in recent years. We would like to lift this veil of pain. We are nothing if not empathetic. Since 2007, the unemployment rate has gone from under 5% to 9%. That represents […]

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Two Questions

With the Passover and Easter holidays imminent, The Stoneslide Corrective moves through the world with eyes seeking spiritual wonder. It makes us ask questions, like the following: Why does the church down the street still have a nativity scene out front? Since someone stole the baby Jesus, and there’s just a rumpled blanket in the middle of the scene, what are the angels worshipping?

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Get Slowpoke Police Off Highways

The most dangerous factor in highway driving is relative velocity. It’s not speed that kills. It’s the difference in speed between you and the object you hit or that hits you. Say you bump your fender against a car traveling at nearly the same speed in the same direction … you won’t be hurt at […]

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Government Support for a New Small Firearms Industry

We at The Stoneslide Corrective propose a government initiative to promote the design, manufacture, and distribution of firearms made for toddlers. This may sound surprising to those who don’t think deeply about public policy. We think deeply. The ultimate goal of government is to minimize suffering. Let us explain how this program will accomplish that. […]

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What’s It Worth to Ya?

Imagine there’s no government-funded law enforcement. Now, say you have a healthy income and substantial assets and real property. How much would you pay for police protection? You say you don’t believe government ever does anything well. Fair enough. How much do you expect to pay private security firms in the next year to make up for the lack of a criminal justice system?