Recent College Grads, Turn Away

The Schloss-Blog wants to know if you're a recent college grad, or know one, or have one in the family, because if so...

...life expectancy at age 25 (adult life expectancy) for those with four-year college degrees rose by 59 years on the eve of the pandemic. In other words, an average individual would live to 84 - up from 54 additional years (or 79 years old) in 1992. During the pandemic, by 2021, the expectation slipped back a year.

All this is according to the Brookings Institution, which found that life expectancy for the college educated in 2021 was eight-and-a-half years longer than for the two-thirds of American adults who don't have a bachelor's degree. Most alarmingly, that is more than triple the 1992 gap of about two-and-a-half  years.

Live longer. Go to college.

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In other Schloss-Blog news ...

... if you watched the women compete in golf's Solheim Cup and then the men in the Ryder Cup on consecutive weekends last month, maybe you noticed the same thing the Schloss-Blog did:

The NBC networks carrying the competitions did not cover them the same. The shot-tracking technology used to trace shots in air during the men's competition was not used near as generously in the women's competition.

What, the women don't matter? At least the U.S. women's team had a shot at winning the Solheim Cup and actually wound up in a tie, which enabled the European team to keep the prize. The U.S. men's team was never close in the Ryder Cup competition. But the shot-tracer was still amply evident.

Oh yeah, the U.S. men's team, much more so than the women, can't putt. The guys I play with on Tuesdays all summer in Illinois make those putts.

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Polls show that Joe Biden is considered too old to complete a second term as president, even though he has shaped and passed some remarkable legislation in technology, jobs, climate and ... yes, infrastructure, which was announced every week during the Trump administration but never executed.

Biden needs a jolt of energy to correct what is considered his more-feeble-than-most posture, speech, gait, delivery and general appearance.

Vitamin B12? Super Beets? Fruits & Veggies? He needs to resemble the Joe Biden that Jason Sudeikis so often portrayed on Saturday Night Live.

Well, who else should be the Democratic nominee? Kamala? Gavin Newsom? J.B. Pritzker?

Yeah, that's what I think too...

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When the NY Giants play the Washington Red__ uh, Commanders, on Sunday, Oct. 22, play close attention.

After watching the Red__, uh, Commanders, put on a pathetic display against the hapless Bears, the Giants-Commanders showdown will be a battle to see who has less.

And when you have less than the Bears, that's a problem.

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If you don't think there's a difference between Democrats and Republicans, consider...

...when Donald Trump got indicted, all the judges and prosecutors got life-threatening messages.

Repeatedly.

When Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) got indicted - again - no one got threatened.

And now, Greg Gutfield, on Fox News, has literally called for civil war.

How mature.

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One last sports note:

During the regular season, Major League Baseball used a man on second at the start of every extra inning to speed up games.

In the postseason, uh uh - no such thing. Rule suspended.

Hey MLB - either get rid of the rule for the regular season or use it in the postseason. Can't have it both ways.

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A quick tip of the cap to Terry Griffin (BG, '78) and guys from the Buffalo Grove and Barrington high schools classes of '78, '80, '82 and '84 who gathered last weekend to mark the memory of the late Dave Millay with their annual kegger.

I'll join you next year, guys.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

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