Because sometimes things just need to be said….
I sat through a full month of NFL preseason football. None of it counted. Most of it was ugly. I’d do it again. That’s not sarcasm, either. Preseason has a well-earned reputation for being close to unwatchable, third-string quarterbacks throwing to receivers who won’t have a job by Labor Day, offensive lines that look like …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …
Florida had to write a law telling grown adults not to blow past a stranger stuck on the shoulder with a flat tire. Not a cop. Not an ambulance. Just a person, hazards blinking, hoping nobody clips them at 70 miles an hour. We needed legislation for that. As of January 1, 2025, Florida’s Move …
A base is fifteen inches square. That’s plenty of room for a runner’s hand to lose contact with it for exactly one video frame — and somehow, that’s apparently enough for a stadium full of people who just watched a guy get to the bag safely to be told, actually, no, he didn’t. That’s not …
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …
Nobody likes buying a car from a dealership. That’s not really an opinion at this point, it’s just consensus. A widely cited industry survey found 87% of people disliked something about the process, and if you’ve ever spent an afternoon waiting for a stranger to “check with his manager” over a number that was never …
Nobody at the Federal Reserve wants to use the word “bailout.” So they didn’t. Since last fall, the New York Fed has pumped more than $420 billion into Wall Street through repo operations — short-term loans where banks hand over Treasury bills as collateral and walk away with cash. The Fed used to cap this …
Try buying more than a box or two of Sudafed at once. A pharmacist will look at you funny, ask a question, maybe make a phone call. Nobody calls that a war on cold sufferers. We built an entire national system, prescription drug monitoring programs, specifically to flag people buying suspicious quantities of controlled substances …
Eighty-six percent of Americans want to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on much lately — this is one of the rare things they do, and by a landslide. So naturally, the bill that actually passed the House this summer doesn’t ban it. On July 22, the House …
Your electric bill went up again this year. Mine did too — about $110 more than last year, which happens to land right around the national average increase. Meanwhile, the companies sending you that bill just wrapped up their best five years ever. From 2021 to 2025, investor-owned electric utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit …
Gary Woodland is playing East Lake this week, and I want you to sit with that sentence for a second before I tell you why it matters. Three years ago, Woodland had brain surgery to remove a tumor. That’s the kind of sentence that usually ends a career, not launches a comeback. It didn’t end …