It’s well established that men have trouble connecting with their true selves well enough to understand their own feelings. This causes no end of trouble, ranging from marital strife to fascism to monster truck rallies. The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can cut […]
Read More...New Word Invented by Amateur Linguist
We often wonder how different the world would be were it shaped by the pure dreamers rather than the ambitious pragmatists. Think of all the visions of a better society that fail because they have no plausible way to be brought into being. What if society progressed with giant leaps of imagination rather than the […]
Read More...The IT Department’s User Support Manager Gets His Soliloquy (Or Is It Soliloquie?)
It’s simple. It’s so simple no one ever suspects it. So simple that real programmers would laugh at it. The program is a macro. It modifies the way Microsoft Word behaves. Of course, I have access to all the computers on the network, since I’m the admin. When I determine someone needs to be taken […]
Read More...Rebranding Literature: Inauguration Redux
Rebranding Literature is a simple plan to make literature more relevant in the marketplace of ideas by maximizing revenue potential. Political discourse has always been an important constituent of literature. Think Cicero, Locke, Jefferson, Marx, King. These titans bequeathed to us words and ideas that make the heart soar and the polity quiver. But literature […]
Read More...Rebranding Literature: Inauguration Edition
On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address. Having led the nation through its most cataclysmic years, with the hard work of remaking the country in front of him, his speech was a miracle of economy, saying just what needed to be said and no more. Today, standing as we do in a nation that has endured economic cataclysm and is deeply divided by political conflict, we think it is right to look at Lincoln’s words again—and to improve them ever so slightly with some appropriate commercial opportunism. We believe Lincoln’s sentiments can again help us be a better nation.
Read More...The Missing Link: Men and Emotions, Part Two
The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can help men access their true selves and their true feelings. The method consists of a single disarming question. Read the first installment of “The Missing Link: Men and Emotions” for a complete explanation. We share these transcripts […]
Read More...No time is more filled with hope
than the beginning of a new year. Hope being, of course, an illusion.
Read More...I love a new year.
It’s a chance to witness more ruin.
Read More...The canvas of a new year is beautiful,
just before it’s painted with blood and bile.
Read More...People’s excitement for the new year
directly correlates with the quality of the discounts offered by their favorite retailers.
Read More...Now is the time you can refashion your life
to be more like your dreams. Keep telling yourself that. For instance, while you’re driving your tin bucket of a car with the rusted out spot under the passenger’s seat that lets the cold air in, because you have to get to the store by 6:00 a.m. to open and then work until dark just […]
Read More...The Missing Link: Men and Emotions, Part One
It’s well established that men have trouble connecting with their true selves well enough to understand their own feelings. This causes no end of trouble, ranging from marital strife to fascism to monster truck rallies. The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can cut through men’s resistance. The method consists of a single disarming question.
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