Stoneslide Gift Assists: A Present for the Parents of Young Children

Clouton, Inc., today releases the Care Pillar, a fully functional hygiene procedure enabler that makes brushing teeth, washing face, clipping fingernails, and other basic activities a snap.

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Advantages Poets Have over Football Players

•Poets are not often asked to debase themselves by endorsing products or businesses in exchange for lucrative reimbursement.
•Although experts and failures alike will criticize poets’ work, it won’t be criticized by morons whose only qualification is that they can sit and hold onto a beer at the same time.
•Poets are not usually pursued romantically solely because of their incomes.

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Climate Scientists Deny that Climate Change Denial Actually Exists

This essay originally appeared in the Duncastle Eagle, November 13, 2014: President Obama has just concluded negotiations with Chinese President Xi over an agreement between the world’s two largest economic powers (and largest polluters) to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But now he faces the real challenge: persuading members of the opposing party in Congress. The […]

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Look on My Works and Wonder

Ozeem, the sub-deputy governor of the province, had the patience of a bureaucrat who has learned that nothing good arrives in time for you to appreciate it and an imp’s glee in practical jokes. When an order came down to ensure that all Grade 2 and higher roadways had accurate and durable mile markers, Ozeem […]

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Unbeknownst to Jim, the literary style known as epistolary expressionist reductionism

reached its ultimate expression in a text message sent by Jim on July 8, 2014, at 4:32 pm, to his friend Guy, which read in its entirety: Yo!

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That little rich sh*t’s motto seems to be measure once,

and Mommy and Daddy will buy more lumber.

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Movement for Money Rights May Reshape Elections

Danvorious Tohd hopes this election will be the last one that’s corrupt. As he sees it, politics is currently defiled by unjustified restrictions on individual and corporate spending—what he calls “handcuffs made from regulations and rules.” Tohd is an outspoken proponent for a California ballot measure known as Prop 88, which he believes would fix […]

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Producers of Summer Blockbusters to Sell Ideology Placements

The deeply held political beliefs of the American people can’t be bought. But movie producers are betting that they can be sold.

The Stoneslide Corrective has acquired proposals prepared by major studios and independent producers to insert ideological content in movies slated to be released in the summer of 2016, just before the next US presidential election. The proposals were sent to the Super PACs of major candidates and both political parties asking for payments ranging from $50,000 to $15,000,000 in return for ideologically friendly zingers, characters, and even whole subplots. Analysts say this is merely a logical development of the increasing use of product placement in feature films in recent years. Call it ideology placement.

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