Because sometimes things just need to be said….
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. …
Somewhere in a closet is a box of old Nintendo games, and a stranger will now tell you exactly how many points those scuffs cost you. Video game grading works like trading card grading. You send in a game, a company inspects it, and it comes back sealed in a hard plastic case with a …
Lamar Jackson is out again today at Cleveland, his second straight miss, and two weeks ago nobody in Baltimore made it sound like a big deal. After the Tennessee game, coach Jesse Minter described it as “a little bit of an ankle” issue, then tacked on “we hope.” He also said, “We don’t know enough …
I agree with the Libertarian Party about a lot of things, and I keep waiting for the party to say them to more than a rounding error of voters. The scorecard is ugly. Gary Johnson pulled about 4.49 million votes in 2016, or 3.28 percent, which is the best showing the party has ever had. …
Your boss would ask one question before hiring you: does your last job look anything like this one? I ran that test on ten of Trump’s most prominent hires from both terms, using nothing but public résumés. Here’s my rubric, and yes, it’s subjective. I compared the size and type of what each person had …
I sat down expecting to be annoyed. A one-day Disney ticket runs well past $150, and a Royals seat can cost $30. Then I divided by hours, which is the step most people skip, and Disney came out looking like the bargain on the list. I did not enjoy that. Here is how I built …
On paper, all 30 teams had a shot at Yoshinobu Yamamoto. On paper, I also had a shot at dunking on LeBron. Technically true, completely useless. When he came over from Japan, the Dodgers landed him for 12 years and $325 million, plus a posting fee of just over $50 million to his old team, …
A federal judge had to order the government to stop airing commercials for the president, and the government’s best defense was that they were about to stop anyway. Here’s what happened. Judge Jennifer Rochon in New York issued a two-week temporary restraining order Sunday night, telling the administration to cancel every remaining ad it bought …
Picture two stores a few blocks apart buying the exact same bottle from the exact same distributor in the same month, and the little one pays more. According to the FTC, that was happening in the booze business. On October 2 the agency announced a settlement with Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, the biggest wine …
Seven months ago Donald Trump started a war with Iran he said would take “four to five weeks.” Now he’s decided the reason your diesel costs so much is the president of Ukraine. Earlier today I wrote about the 77 million people who voted for the dumbest human on earth. I figured I’d have to …
Almost two years ago, 77,303,573 Americans voted for Donald Trump. I think they picked the dumbest human on earth for the most powerful job on earth, and I’m done being polite about it. That’s my opinion. The receipts below are not. Prices were the pitch. At a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, he said “Groceries, cars …
On Wednesday morning the government will announce what it thinks your groceries cost, and then decide how big a raise retirees get for it. Estimates for the 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment are sitting around 3.5 percent, up from 2.8 percent this year. The official number lands October 14 alongside the September inflation report, and …