People blaming her/her family for not finding an alternative or filing the correct paperwork:

Poverty isn’t just monetary. It is a poverty of resources, poverty of information, and poverty of advocacy. 

Wow. No fountain pen users at Lifehacker?

I have double my salary in student loan debt, does that count?

So I see she’s already had some coffee.

Ha. I’ve been married for almost 13 years, and I still have this conversation with myself regularly. I took his name partly because I didn’t have any huge emotional connection to mine, partly because his is easier to spell, and partly because I bought into the sexist myth that marriage was an achievement and I wanted…

There are good people on both sides of the heavily child laden table.

This is so stupid. #justiceforthebees

Except that Amazon actually fought for (and won) the right to not pay employees for time that they were required to remain on Amazon premises and be searched by the company to prevent theft..

Folks, this is what sobriety does to a brain. Don’t let this happen to you!

Your dry t-shirt contest promotion sounds awesome.

Hey you,

Man, this solves a number of issues for me!

Macallen or die.

I belive the point is that with our support under Obama, they were making progress in making their region more stable and helping to loosen Boko’s grip on the area. Now, without our help, Boko is growing again and region is becoming less stable as a result. This will, of course, ultimatly bite us in the ass as well as…

They heard “Chad” and assumed someone was talking about them.

People’s resilience and ability to not be physically harmed by words is not a reason to perpetuate demeaning and hateful expressions, even if they’ve lost some of that ugliness over time. I get what you’re saying here (they’re only words, right?), but this concept of “people just shouldn’t take it the wrong way” is…

I spent most of my teen years as an Anheuser-Busch procurement manager. 

CapitalOne 360 is free. I also recommend USAA if you or a parent, grandparent, or sibling are current or former military (my granddad was in he military and I was able to join USAA with full benefits through him).