Kudos to University of Southern California!

Well done USC!.... next step, make post-secondary free for everyone.

What would that cost America? One, possibly two fewer hundred-million dollar drones. The ones they use to execute people without trial in Africa and the Middle East.

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Mia Turel began college at age 12 years old!

"Mia Turel was in first grade when she asked her father to teach her how to chart the probability of losing her baby teeth over time. By second grade, she was reading high school-level books on Martin Luther King Jr. Then she became fascinated by TED Talks on global warming and marine biology."

... read Teresa Watanabe's article in the LA Times

To all screenwriters who aspire to success

Hey all you aspiring screenwriters. 

I laughed when I noticed that since 1992 I have entered the same screenwriting contest seventeen times in March. Then received the same rejection letter seventeen times in August. 

Today's entry - my eighteenth - is going to be a winner however. Who could say no to a story where "The U.S. army invades California when two black women - a surgeon and a barista - form a new country and attempt to separate from America."... Or at least I hope they can't say no. 

Perhaps if I change my last name to Hemingway and begin smoking fat cigars I'll have better luck..

Los Angeles students force the cops to surrender their grenade launchers

"A coalition of Los Angeles high school students and grassroots organizers just accomplished the unthinkable. After nearly two years of sit-ins and protests, they forced the police department for the second-largest public school district in the United States to remove grenade launchers, M-16 rifles, a mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle and other military-grade weaponry from its arsenal.

But the coalition did not stop there. Members took over a Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board meeting in February to call for proof that the arms had been returned to the Department of Defense -- a demand they eventually won in the form of an itemized invoice for every weapon sent back to the DoD. "(Department of Defence)

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