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In Front of Our Noses: “I can do whatever I want, if I want.”, from Steven L. Taylor outsidethebeltway.com/in-fro…
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Ticket prices are one factor, but also long lines. The latter is the bigger issue for us*. Some of that can be blamed on childless, too, though from what I recall kids dominated the lines at the rides.
* -We're not so rich that it doesn't hurt, but you can budget for the once-in-a-childhood trip. The lines make it so that it either (a) isn't as fun as it should be, or (b) an exercise in planning how to optimize lines and fast passes.
Disney World isn’t “full of families” anymore because most of the people walking around don’t have any. We're talking about only 37% of visitors being households with kids. Childless adults are the single biggest slice and the highest spenders. Ticket prices turned the place into a luxury good right as the birth rate collapsed, so the DINKs and the perpetual adolescents fill the gap. Contemporary culture is increasingly organized around adult consumption rather than marriage and family formation.
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I also want to make my periodic complaint that we're in this situation in part because everybody - including families - abandoned the less pricey mid-range alternatives. While Disney prospers, Six Flags was abandoned and has been wilting away both economically and in consumer experience (they can't afford to offer what they did when I was a kid).
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Jaybird - Wednesday Music Post: Who’s That? ordinary-times.com/2026/10/0…
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Will Truman retweeted
Rebecca hated men, so naturally she posted about them 10 times a day on Instagram.
She was never going to find a life partner. No one shared her love of wildlife or lived up to her cleanliness standards.
One day she shared a photo of a crow who'd brought her a coin.
"That's actually a raven," a guy named Kyle responded.
"Thanks for the mansplaining 🙄," Rebecca replied.
A mere decade earlier, Rebecca might have been excited that a man also liked birds. She might have scrolled through his profile and noticed that his place was extremely tidy and and that he joked he was an old man who loved bird-watching.
But alas, it was 2026. Kyle also had a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, so he called her a stupid feminist & she blocked him.
Don't worry. This is not an unhappy ending. Rebecca doesn't need a man and Kyle knows women aren't worth the trouble. They're both self-reportedly VERY happy alone!
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An Alternative Explanation for Trump’s ‘Take Out Los Angeles’ Quip, from James Joyner outsidethebeltway.com/an-alt…
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Editor's Notes: A Free Society is an Urban Society liberalcurrents.com/editors-…
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Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)
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Will Truman retweeted
another reason young people should watch old movies is that it is really hard to convey how borderline apocalyptic the major east coast cities were in the 70s through late 80s. DC had a homicide rate comparable to Rio
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Will Truman retweeted
Another interesting fact from my poll is that these double-haters are *not* uninformed.
They are substantially more likely to say they know - and correctly name - a member of Congress.
Dissatisfied, not disconnected. That's what makes them such a powerful bloc.
Centerline Research pollster, @nataliemj10, has almost identical results that we had in our bipartisan @WSJ poll showing Dems with big leads with Independents and Doublehaters on the generic ballot.
Every campaign pollster looks at double haters. She had Dems leading 52% to 23% with voters who are unfavorable to both parties.
In our WSJ poll, 21% of the electorate are double haters -- up from 13% in 2022. They have decided the last three presidential elections.
There are some great interview quotes in this article from real voters who have these negative feelings about both political parties wsj.com/politics/elections/t… via
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Wednesday’s Forum, from Steven L. Taylor outsidethebeltway.com/wednes…
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Will Truman retweeted
In 2015, my map of an optimal U.S. road trip went viral.
People kept asking about it, so I brought it back.
Now you can pick landmarks and national parks and find the fastest driving order for your own trip.
Try it: optimalroadtrips.com
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Why the Maps of London, Tokyo, New York, and Other Major Cities Look the Way They Do openculture.com/2026/10/why-…
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Trump’s Domestic Policy Is Domestic Abuse liberalcurrents.com/trumps-d…
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I had a cardboard cutout personality type around me of aren't-I-interesting "GPB's" (Goth-Pagan-Bisexual)
In a way, I'm actually surprised it isn't higher than 3%.
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Related, people of a certain age remember Duke vs Edwards ("Vote for the crook, it's important"). What people may not know is that there was actually a perfectly decent and reasonable incumbent who was personally odd that didn't make the runoff.
Say what you will about Capone and Hitlerio, they're not as personally annoying as Honesto. They don't remind you of that obnoxious guy in the honors dorm.
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486 openculture.com/2026/10/its-…
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