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.

Correctives

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.

Correctives

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?

Correctives

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.

A Life Examined

Setting Right

Mary Dacton had reached a point where she no longer thought work could be anything better than drudgery. Her job as a copy editor—daily paper, mid-size market—was the one thing that had once given her satisfaction, especially the mundane triumphs of catching someone else’s error or winning an argument about punctuation. But over the years, […]

The Cynic's Notebook

If you don’t understand,

blame teachers.

The Cynic's Notebook

If your parents don’t understand,

blame teachers.

The Cynic's Notebook

If your kids don’t read at their grade levels,

blame teachers.

The Cynic's Notebook

If your kids are no good at math and science,

blame teachers.

The Cynic's Notebook

If your minor daughters get pregnant,

blame teachers.

The Cynic's Notebook

If your minor sons get girls pregnant,

blame teachers.

The Stoneslide Chorus

Second Guest Editor: The Rejection Generator Project

A demonically horrible method to attain literary greatness is what one can find in the latest rejection letter in the Guest Editor series of Stoneslide’s Rejection Generator Project. Our second Guest Editor, novelist Max R. Tomlinson, submitted a rejection so brutal that when it was fed into the Generator not only did it come back […]