Yes, that page I linked to is ridiculous (hence the "Amusingly"), but it's still true that you can't just become considered independent for financial aid purposes by not living with your parents and not being claimed on their taxes. This actual government page says the same thing. You need to fall under certain…

My exact first thought. Wikipedia backs us up. (Though, ya know, Wikipedia.)

Wrong. Student financial aid goes under their own very specific dependency rules, and doesn't give a damn about whether or not they're claimed on your taxes or even live with you.

Alas, no. I know a lot of people who got screwed by deadbeat parents and the like. The policy seems to be to assume that all possible parents love you and want you to go to college and can and will donate every free cent to that goal, no matter what the reality of your actual family situation is.

The same.

New? This footage was released on Tuesday. It's been an entire "Hawkeye's farm" tumblr meme since then (1 tumblr meme = ~3 years real life).

The word is that B.J. Britt is filming another tv series, so his role has been minimized in these episodes in order to give him that time.

That's interesting. I remember that story vividly and think of it often, but I never considered it to be particularly scary. Now that I'm considering it, I can totally see why it would be scary, but apparently the reaction just sort of passed me by as a child.

Heck, I knew that there was going to be a bloodbath at the Red Wedding (including that it was called that), and I neither read the books nor watch the series! It was just completely pervasive knowledge in popular culture at the time.

To be honest, those last two would present significant issues for me as well.

Myka/HG 4eva!

And I really wish it would have stayed there. Very few people actually look good cut off at the waist with a big ruffle.

There are a lot of reasons, but here's one that sometimes applies to me:

Interestingly, that's the same exact response I get when I tell people I loathe chicken. I'm pretty sure that hating the taste of alcohol is much more common and socially acceptable, though.

Says someone who has obviously never added spiced rum to their pumpkin pie.

Also, for the dollars and cents people out there: note from this graphic I just created that Comic Sans is a pretty wide font. This is intentional - it's part of what makes it so legible. Some fonts are narrower. Some are taller or shorter. These sorts of details have real life consequences. It's:

All these people who don't understand why typography matters hurt my professional-document-creation heart.

My book learnin's (a.k.a. my BS in Business) tells me this is called a "loss leader". When you see a deal that makes you say, "how are they even making money off of that," they usually aren't. They're getting you to enter the store long enough to buy a bunch of other stuff that they will make money off of. See also:…

Those are not great comparisons. You don't have to have a representative of every type of disability in order to have a disabled character, any more than you have to have gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and every other QUILTBAG variation in order to have LGBT representation.

I'm generally in favor of judging shows based on the standards of the day instead of current ones, which is why I don't wince at, say, some of the misogynistic bullshit on TOS - I know how much better it was than everything around it. And I'm definitely not dissing The Offspring. But one episode is next to nothing in…