Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Tonight, millions of Americans will hand a stranger’s kid a piece of chocolate that costs more than it did last year, and then complain about it in the group chat. The National Retail Federation expects Halloween spending to hit $13.5 billion this year, up from $13.1 billion in 2025. That works out to about $115 …
Your electric bill has a lot in common with a bad relationship: it keeps going up, nobody explains why, and the other party seems to be doing great. Here’s the scorecard. Electricity prices rose about 40% between 2021 and 2025, according to the nonprofit PowerLines. Utilities asked regulators for a record $31 billion in rate …
There are thousands of Disney World tips out there, and I’ve read an unhealthy number of them. Only one has never let me down: get to the park early. Not 15 minutes early. At least 45 minutes before opening, and up to 90 on a packed day. Here’s why. Parking, the monorail or bus, and …
At a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, on October 14, the President of the United States told a crowd that a swimmer “suffered massive windburn” because a giant in the next lane “swam by her so fast that the wind was unbelievable.” Nobody in the story was named, and he never said where or when …
Disney sells a lot of things that cost too much. Photos, weirdly, aren’t one of them. I’ve said for a while that PhotoPass is by far the best deal in the whole Disney World catalog, so I went and tested my own claim. The product is now called Memory Maker, and as of the October …
The best week of the baseball calendar is happening right now, and both sides of the sport’s labor fight picked it to announce they’re not budging. Before Game 1 of the World Series, commissioner Rob Manfred said the players’ union boss, Bruce Meyer, “is not prepared to do a status quo deal.” Meyer said anything’s …
I spent a whole post complaining that Disney World food is pricey and usually average. Now I’m going to tell you to spend more on a meal. Yes, I see the problem. Here’s the difference: at a character meal, you aren’t buying dinner. You’re buying your kid a few uninterrupted minutes with Mickey, and the …
Some nights your dreams are lovely. You’re at the beach, everybody you like is there, and the whole thing makes perfect sense until you wake up and wish you could go back. Other nights your brain apparently raided a pharmacy. You’re at work in your underwear while your third-grade teacher, who is now a giraffe, …
On October 11, the Washington Commanders had the ball in overtime with 55 seconds left, a kicker on the roster, and a field goal about 41 yards away that would have won the game. They tied instead. Here’s how you do that. Washington ran Rachaad White for two yards at the 55-second mark, then the …
Ask a Democrat who their 2028 nominee should be and you’ll get a long pause, then a shrug, then a name that changes depending on who’s in the room. So I went looking for an actual answer. First, a definition, because “serious” gets thrown around like confetti. My test: polling in the double digits nationally, …
Full disclosure up front: I run this one. Two weeks ago Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin as a Category 2 with 105 mph winds, and a lot of people on the Gulf Coast spent that week squinting at cone graphics that looked like a plate of spaghetti someone dropped on a map. That’s the …
A cheeseburger at Pecos Bill in Magic Kingdom costs $14.79. That’s the barbecue bacon jam one, and it’s the headliner at a counter-service window, not a steakhouse. A fountain drink to go with it is $4.99, after a 20-cent bump just two weeks ago. I’m not mad that Disney charges what the market will bear. …