Back to School, and If The Economy's So Good, Why Don't Peopl Think So

The Schloss-Blog went to college once and taught at the college level for a long time. But these days, colleges are in the news for all the wrong reasons.

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The University of Pennsylvania needs a new president because its former president doesn't know how to define genocide or at least what a threat genocide is on a college campus or anywhere else.

Makes you wonder about the quality of people who run our colleges and their decision-making processes. Apparently those processes are faulty at MIT, Harvard, Penn and likely schools of lesser stature too.

How comforting and yet how disgraceful.

And there is no truth to the rumor that Penn's applications include a question of whether the prospective applicant endorses genocide.

We know the now-former president does. 

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As if it's not bad enough that the presidents of MIT, Harvard and Penn embarrassed themselves, their schools and the whole concept of free speech at college campuses, a shooter let loose at UNLV, killed three and set a sad record for the number of shootings on schools' grounds this year: 306.

Three-hundred and six.

If you're rethinking how safe your kids, your grandkids are when they go off to school each day, you're right to do so.

But Ted Cruz thinks we need more armed gunmen on campuses to provide security.

Yeah, Ted, good idea.

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Hey, colleges, we're not through.

Just what was the College Football Playoff committee thinking when it omitted unbeaten Florida State and defending two-time national champ Georgia out of the upcoming playoff?

Were they not good enough (combined 25-1 record)?

Did they have to get paired against each other in the Orange Bowl? As if that's going to settle any arguments.

And of course, if those two get in, who gets taken out?

Alabama? They beat Georgia.

Texas? They beat Alabama.

Speaking of which, because of the final rankings, either Texas or Washington is going to play for the national title.

Texas. Or Washington.

Instead of unbeaten Florida State or two-time defending national champion Georgia.

They can't start the 12-team playoff soon enough.

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Outside of college, the Schloss-Blog is asking questions.

• Like, why do Republicans vote to toss lying George Santos out of Congress but also vote to overturn a legitimate election in favor of lying Donald Trump?
• What were the fake electors thinking about in Nevada and Wisconsin that got them indicted and to admit publicly that Trump lost, respectively?
• Why, if the economy's so good do so many people think it's so bad?
• And what will the LIV-PGA merger look like now that it is full tilt after Jon Rahm took what is a reported $500 million to play carnival golf for LIV?

Golf as we know it will now never be the same.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you Ofelia Roitman.

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