These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans
The media fixates on the overall size of student debt. But where you go to school, whether you graduate, and what kind of job you get later may matter much more.
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omfg i’m crying at the latest episode of Got because daenerys is listening to this guy and she’s so tired of his bullshit and she looks directly at the camera like she’s in an Office episode
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The owner of a Washington flower shop is counter-suing the state after being told she could not refuse service to a gay customer.
Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene’s Flowers, told a longtime customer she couldn’t provide flowers for his wedding to another man because of “her relationship with Jesus Christ.” The attorney general is suing Stutzman for violating Washington’s consumer anti-discrimination law, but she says the state is actually violating her religious beliefs.
Her case has become a cause-celeb for opponents of marriage equality, who have long claimed a right to discriminate based on their religious beliefs. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Republicans in the Washington Senate have introduced a bill that would make it legal for business owners to discriminate against LGBT patrons.
The florist’s lawyers reiterated that idea when talking about the lawsuit with the Seattle P-I:
“In America, the government is supposed to protect freedom, not use its intolerance for certain viewpoints to intimidate citizens into acting contrary to their faith convictions. Family business owners are constitutionally guaranteed the freedom to live and work according to their beliefs,” said Dale Schowengerdt, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is defending Stutzman.I’m floored that we’re still talking about this case. A counter-lawsuit means this incident is going to get tons more media attention; are we really at a place where we have to explain why discriminating is wrong?
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Protested Development: Cause Posters for the Whole (Bluth) Family.
Shutterstock’s in-house design team created “cause” posters in honor of this month’s 15 all-new episodes return of Arrested Development on Netflix. These are based on one of our team’s favorite recurring bits - Lindsay Bluth Fünke’s love of causes. We’ve designed Cause Protest Posters for the different family members and what we think their character would be passionate about.
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