Happy holidays and welcome to the Week 16 Power Rankings. I hope you’re reading this in a semi-relaxed state with the bulk of your shopping behind you. My colleague, Albert Breer, and I disagree vehemently on the merits of in-person shopping on Christmas Eve but I’m starting to see his point. After a torrid stretch of purchasing, returning, one-starring Etsy pages that promised to deliver on time but waited like three weeks to ship and phoning several Korean barbecue restaurants to ask about digital gift cards, I’ve arrived here in this moment where I should feel complete.
Instead, just before bed Monday my 5-year-old said he was really hoping Santa brought him a Lego Minecraft Pick Axe. He’s never played Minecraft. He’s never seen a pick axe. What the f— is this s—?
