Motel 6

Bedbugs are back, and they're worse than ever. While pesticides have kept the pests under control for decades, EPA decisions to ban several classes of chemicals have benefited the bugs. And between lawsuits and pricey eradication, the bloodsuckers are biting Americans in the wallet.

Halloween is coming, so I'm going to kick off festivities by saying one of the scariest phrases in the English language: roadside motel. Norman Bates may be the drag queen emblem of all things horrifying, but across America, the stained bedspreads and mildewed corners of our country's motels are,...

Rock on, man. In what has got to be one of the strangest hotel promotions in history, Motel 6 is offering free lodging to rock stars. Have these Motel 6 execs never seen an episode of VH1's Behind the Music? Have they never heard of Keith Moon or Amy Winehouse? Don't they know the kind of havoc...