A gentle reader has pointed out a serious omission in our recent story, “Colloquium Defines What Is Human.” Given that it is now established that humans are distinguished within the animal kingdom by adept use of acronyms and initialisms, we have failed to fully exercise our humanity by not applying this distinctively human mode of […]
Read More...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. […]
Read More...Writers at Work: Dickens
Everyone knows that Dickens wrote fast—he was famously paid by the word. He produced stacks of copy, but he also generated prose of such brilliance that people know the lines by heart more than a century later. We at The Stoneslide Corrective investigated his process of composition in order to understand how it was possible […]
Read More...If I read all the agreements I signed,
I wouldn’t have time to violate them.
Read More...Writers at Work: Bono
The rock singer Bono is a lyricist of great and deserved renown. The heart of his success is his artistic expression, and that wasn’t formed in the public sphere of cocktail parties, expert panels, or focus groups. It was forged in solitary labors, where the soul pounds against the hard truths of nature and the […]
Read More...Colloquium Defines What Is Human
A fourteen-hour discussion among the world’s leading academic psychologists, sociologists, biologists, anthropologists, and philosophers ended in consensus on a new definition of what it means to be human. “I don’t want to sound grandiose, but someday people will look back and see this discussion as a turning point in human history,” said one participant.
Read More...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?
Read More...Belief in misleading ideas
is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s called optimism.
Read More...All’s fair
in love and preschool drop-off.
Read More...I had a thought yesterday.
It coalesced into a void.
Read More...Why do you always talk about karma
when someone else is being an asshole?
Read More...Research shows wide gap in incomes and happiness of fans of the band the Replacements compared to fans of the band R.E.M.
Co-authors Hanphram T. Zennels and Moira Beverley have found that fans of R.E.M. earn $4,400 more, annually, than fans of The Replacements. However, Replacements fans exhibit far greater levels of happiness, shaped by what the authors called “their ability to see everything that is bad, and good, be aware of all that, and realize that life is what obtains, not what should obtain. …”
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