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Life Expectancy In the U.S. By Education Level

A few years ago a lady contacted me by snail mail about a book I wrote, wanting a copy. She lived in a middle or upper middle class suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, and said that most people she knew there were older folks, and it was common for both males and females to live into their eighties.

Living in small town and rural Missouri, one gets a very different impression of how long men live. You just don't see men in their late seventies or eighties here, or meet them anywhere. Apparently fewer live that long in this part of America. The few men that old that are around don't show up in public or reveal that they are here.

Also, on dating services women - even those in their sixties or early to mid seventies - tend to reject men on those sites who are in their seventies. They believe men that old are ready to die.

Although young people on this site may not be interested, the information saying that people who have college degrees live longer is something few people know. Beating stereotypes over the head and defeating conventional "wisdom" is always interesting to me.

Is A Hard Rain Already Falling?

OK I see "Arkansas" won't post here either. Tony Blizzard, the guy who wrote the article on his dogs refusing to drink the rain water late last week, lives in Arkansas, not too far away from me in Missouri.

Is A Hard Rain Already Falling?

I copied my last post off a post of mine to Facebook. For some reason the Facebook system deleted "Arkansas" from my post.

Here is how the first paragraph of the quote should read:

"My Dogs Won't Drink the Rainwater by Tony Blizzard

Most of this week it has been raining where I live. Until today it was mostly light rain but this morning there was close lightening and thunder and water coming down by inches an hour. This water is off the Gulf of Mexico, pushed inland by the current storm in the gulf."

Promotion of Byte Speak On Connecting Singles

I don't know how much money Connecting Singles can save by limiting blog posts to 4000 characters. Few people write posts longer than that.

I use several free blogs and to my knowledge none have this kind of limitation on the number of characters one can use in one single post.

Text does not use up very much space in the Internet world and so its not too expensive. For example, you can put a great deal of text on one CD which usually can handle up to 700 MB. I suspect 700 MB would be enough to handle the blogs and forums on Connecting Singles for several months.

Photos take more MB than text and if video is included on a dating site, it uses a great deal more space.

Probably the main cost to Connecting Singles is the server and the initial cost of the code to set up the dating service.

Promotion of Byte Speak On Connecting Singles

Its interesting that the two people who sort of agreed with me that there might be some problems with limiting writers to 4000 characters are from Ireland and the Land Down Under. It could be that Americans are a little more in favor of the use of only one or two short sentences in communicating something.

Well, anyway, Connecting Singles does permit links to be live on blogs.

Here is another blog article which in the last part deals with the same issues of the influence of certain well known intellectuals - like Wilhelm Reich and the Frankfurt School who undermine the family and Christianity - upon the counterculture and its absorption into the mainstream popular culture: