“each commonwealth (Puerto Rico) and territory (Guam)“

I have no philosophical issue with getting rid of the electoral college, but how would you accomplish that?  You’d be asking representatives from a lot (I’m guessing 30+) to basically vote against their own best interests (i.e. the voters in my state don’t matter).  Even if they believe that end result is best for the…

Except the plot has deviated from the books in other ways, so Littlefinger (in the show) could absolutely be involved.

The TV show has not been very realistic about how long travel takes, so I don’t see why this would be any different.

How is it logistically impossible? LF claims he lost the dagger to Robert, but I don’t think that was confirmed by Robert (was it?) Or if it was, LF could have stolen it back before. You also assume the dagger was with Robert in Winterfell (i.e. when Bran fell). The dagger could have been in King’s Landing the whole…

I thought the show strongly implied it was Littlefinger.  It was his dagger, right?  That he lost in a card game (according to him).  Then when he is talking with Three Eyed Raven Bran (Season 6?), and Bran parrots back to him his own “Chaos is a ladder” line, making Littlefinger realize Bran can see the past, he (LF)…

Point of clarification:  Is he a “big guy” because he is 6'2 (which I don’t feel like is unusually tall; I’m 6'5 and have owned/driven a lot of smaller cars) or because he’s, er, big boned?  Because those are two different questions when evaluating him fitting in a car (leg room vs girth room).

TL; DR : Here is an app for people who are bad at math and don’t know how the calculator on the phone works.

How is this cowardly? Was Dean Smith’s four corners offense also cowardly? Is it cowardly to kneel down at the end of a football game rather than risk running a play? The defenders could have pressured the ball handler. They chose not to (not right away anyway). No rules were broken. And they won the game, so I guess…

Doesn’t the article say many kids don’t start the practice of fasting until they are teenagers?  So what’s the big deal?

If you are a fan of bristle brushes (I am):

Sorry, I don’t have any sympathy for people who took out student loans. At 18 years old, you need to understand what debt and earning potential are. And even if you didn’t you should have had some people (parents, uncles/aunts, guidance counselors) to give some (marginally) useful advice.

“He gets to move from frickin’ Pittsburgh to New Jersey”

Most large schools do not (and cannot due to number of applicants) do in person interviews.  Written essays can easily be written by someone else.  A 4.0 at school A might not be the same as a 4.0 at school B.  Standardized (key word) tests, while not perfect, do give schools a uniform metric.  It is not a perfect…

Oh, please.  Provide an alternative.

Large schools cannot possibly have open enrollment. Many state schools only accept between 30 and 50% of applicants.  There is just no way to accept 100% of applicants. The system would crash.

So propose an alternative. Colleges need a way to evaluate students. Large schools cannot possibly individually screen applicants in meaningful ways (multiple in person interview/problem solving sessions). Standardized tests are an imperfect metric, but in the absence of another workable metric, they are here to stay.

I’ve cracked the code of these comments:

Should we also ban ACTs and SATs? Because they can’t handle oversight of their people either.

They only tangentially enter in. This didn’t involve student athletes or schools faking test scores to make athletes eligible. It involved parents faking high school athletic careers for their kids to get the into colleges. And while the college coaches took bribes (which is illegal), those bribes didn’t affect the…