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If you want to get rid of student debt, make student loans bankruptable. Nobody will ever make a student loan under those circumstances. Problem solved.

If you chose debt over community college and Local State, that’s seriously not my problem. If you took out loans for grad school of any kind: absolutely not my problem—doctors and lawyers should do a payback calculation. Any other grad school should be paid for by your current employer or the school.

If you took on debt at Local State, that will likely be a small number. The big scary numbers are either doctors who chose to live like doctors before they were doctors, or the young engineers in my office who were foolish enough to go to USC, when most of the top engineering schools are public…

 

Exactly! Paid for two CSULB tuitions myself and still had enough left over to survive at that time. Choices!

 

I drafted a doozy about liberals and conservatives, read it, smiled and laughed, and then deleted it, and this is all you get.

 

You are wiser than I. At least this one time.

 

I would submit that most who go to USC aren't taking out loans to do so. A USC student is buying cronyism - USC grads hire USC grads over anyone. The head of the USC Rossier School of Education once semi-publicly declared that there will be a USC grad in every superintendency and every premier leadership position in Orange County Schools by 2020. He came close.

 

I didn’t pay for my U$C degree, but I can confirm that they push the “USC family” thing ridiculously hard. They have definitely figured out that “Leadership” is mostly an act, and it’s easier to teach people who grew up with money how to be comfortable giving direction to objectively more capable subordinates.

Then again, I once worked in a department where the underlings were from Caltech, MIT, and UCLA, and the boss on the fast track was from LB State.

 

I'm not a fan of bailouts, but I'm also not a fan of someone's financial well being in adulthood being predicated upon making shrewd financial decisions when they were 17 or 18, often with little or improper guidance. I was lucky that I had some degree of direction when I was picking my major, and that my 4 years of in-state public tuition cost less than my daughter's 4 years of day care and pre-school. We have a small fortune in my daughter's 529 account (decidedly smaller YTD). I hope it provides her more than just not having to spend her first couple decades of adulthood in hock.

 

Ghetto bird is orbiting purty much around the 91/Beach Bvd. Sirens are audible.

Just another day.

 

Yikes.

 

I cannot like this.

 

My daughter has one student loan and we have been paying it down for the last two years so she doesn’t have huge debt when she graduates this June. She has been getting scholarships and grants that covers her cost for tuition, but not living and food.

She plans on going to law school so she may have debt there, but she will hopefully get more scholarships and grants to offset the debt. Plus we help out all we can.

 

Awwww Sh!t... c'mon Lyle... Wishing you a quick and complete recovery. Must have been a gnarly crash. Rachel's gotta be a little pissed, but I'm sure she gets it.

 

From Pinkbike:

Kyle Strait has been air-lifted from the Red Bull Rampage course by helicopter after a crash on the drop that leads him into the top of the Oakley Sender zone. He rear wheel cased and got bucked a long ways down the landing.

 

I think it’s time for the energy drink industry to dial back on the “progression” and maybe think of the athletes as something more than expendable.

 

At about 9 mins…..is the crash.

the body is not supposed to bend like that….

 

Wow, not even close to the biggest jump we have seen at Rampage. Hard to tell exactly what happened with the bushes in the way right as he landed.

Sounds like he is doing OK.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/rachelstrait1/2954010020245511507/

 

He didn't even get the cool purple socks. I'd be pissed. Seriously though, glad to see this seemingly wasn't a life altering injury.

 

I didn’t realize any of these guys were doing this involuntarily.

 

Beat me to it.

 

Just noticed this....can they go back and spellcheck on the sign maker? Maybe get a refund? Make said sign maker redo without cost to the agency?????

Maybe DDD can figure out who okayed the PO and turn them in.

 

So you’re saying, if we flood the Sheriff’s station with enough e-bike complaints….

 

Then you too can get a free spell checker.

They don't really want your input.

 

Sports adjust rules for player safety all the time.

 

#1) This is a recreational activity

#2) The riders themselves choose their own route and what tricks they are willing to throw

#3) As MTBR’s, we can appreciate the talent of all these riders in Res Bull events, Crankworx, etc…., but most people think the participants are a lil’ crazy or actually stupid for doing the tricks they do. Kind of like I feel about the wing-suit wackos.

 

We should get hazard pay.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amazon-delivery-driver-found-dead-apparent-dog-attack-rcna53834

 

You will if you get attacked, me thinks.

 

If you are in the Castaic area I would recommend staying off the sidewalks.

Nick got his driver's license today.


And lucky for me his Nana & Papa lived up to their word and gave him a car. Then I made the dreaded call to add him to our insurance. Little b@stard is gonna need to put in more hours at the shop.


And his dad fixed the sign on the back of the car.

 

Congrats! Hey, no more chauffeur duties for you and mom!
You just get to worry all night and cringe when you get the insurance renewal each year.

 

Another potential shuttle driver joins the ranks!