Agreed, but the OP said they had no income other than some interest, dividends or something on "a few thousand dollars", so they don't likely owe and may even qualify for a credit.

I'm not the one who made the original suggestion, but I believe their point was that if you don't owe any taxes and/or if a refund is due to you, there are no penalties and as you said in your other comment, the IRS isn't going to come after someone unless they likely owe.

You do realize that every time a newspaper or a blog site reports on something, they're not endorsing the idea or saying that they'll go along with it? I especially can't see how anyone would have thought that from Kate's post about their request.

I really don't understand the animosity. I'm a fan of Ms. Tubman's. I remember that I did a report on her in school. I've been to several Underground Railroad sites and I've toured her home. If I were interested in screenwriting at this stage in my life, something I've thought about doing in the past and why I own a…

I wasn't trying to be flip. People make movies about things in which they are interested unless it's some kind of corporate school film, which I'm sure some of those already exist. Perhaps reading a Jezebel comment will cause someone to think about writing and pitching a Harriet Tubman film, but the process has to…

Amazon has dozens of books on screenwriting, if you'd like to give it a try.

No, my point is that in his dinner table conversation, I'm sure your neighbor was asking about an ideal past, one painted with modern sensibilities. I don't know that there's anybody who would want to go back to the past as it existed, which is why it is usually depicted as idealized on television. For example, all of…

I've never wanted to go back to a previous time and I don't know how I would answer if asked a preference at a dinner party, but in defense of those who would, unless they're some kind of special asshole with whom you wouldn't be friends, stating a preference wouldn't mean that they'd want bad along with the good. Off…

Though it's just a technicality, Bill owned the astroturf-lined El Camino. After he first told the story, a lot of us wrote our own jokes which have become part of his lore.

On Two and Half Men, she plays the late Charlie's daughter. Her character is a hard-partying lesbian in the Charlie Sheen role.

Are they anywhere near the Sam Houston Institute of Technology?

I only really know what was the case for me and I've asked my wife, but a targeted web search says it was in '87 when children's social security numbers were required on tax forms to prove dependents were real and they started being automatically issued with birth certificates in '89.

Babies getting a social security number is a relatively new thing. I'd say within the past twenty years or so. I don't know your age, but it was normal for people to not get one until their teens.

If they don't do a new post, there will always be the Lifehacker archives.

You're talking about syndicated programming which is scheduled by the local channel and would be subject to their "local standards". Network television, whose "community standards" were the entire nation are the ones who put the more adult programming later at night.

Scheduled posts?

Great eye! Hope you don't mind, but I flipped the two and posted it to Crosstalk, where I gave you the credit and linked this thread. Terrific job!

I'm emailing you now, if you'd like to dismiss. I'm going to go ahead and dismiss the one with your email addy because I can.

I'm borrowing this old comment where we're both gray and you can dismiss me to keep your comment clean if you'd like, I'm only using it as a communications tool, but your post today was shared to Crosstalk and I've looked at your Kinja, I'd really like to give you author privileges so that you can share more of your…

I'm sure the video will not display properly in a comment, so I'm linking to where I posted a clip to Crosstalk last month, but according a Discovery Channel show, foxes are more likely to catch field mice hidden under snow, if they're facing north.