Oldcoach
@oldcoach.bsky.social
Old man, retired statistics teacher, athletics coach, home cook, bad pop music aficionado.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
You might guess which birthday this is today.
You might guess which birthday this is today.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
You might guess which birthday this is today.
You might guess which birthday this is today.
Boston turns out - it’s so crowded it’s hard to get a good view of the whole crowd! Boston Common is packed!
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Boston turns out - it’s so crowded it’s hard to get a good view of the whole crowd! Boston Common is packed!
I stand with President Trump that we should do everything to destroy the hate-filled organizations which radicalized the shooter of Charlie Kirk.
Wait, I’m getting an update …
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September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I stand with President Trump that we should do everything to destroy the hate-filled organizations which radicalized the shooter of Charlie Kirk.
Wait, I’m getting an update …
Wait, I’m getting an update …
My one take on the discourse today: it is interesting that our “elites” believe that in a historically violent country, awash in guns, allowing or indeed providing content that degrades and dehumanizes people will NOT result in violence. /1
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My one take on the discourse today: it is interesting that our “elites” believe that in a historically violent country, awash in guns, allowing or indeed providing content that degrades and dehumanizes people will NOT result in violence. /1
Here’s an old Soviet joke: every day a man walks past a newsstand on his way to work. He stops, looks at the front pages, then continues on his way. After a few weeks of this, the news dealer stops him one day and asks, “why don’t you ever buy the paper?” “Oh, I don’t really want the paper,” /1
August 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Here’s an old Soviet joke: every day a man walks past a newsstand on his way to work. He stops, looks at the front pages, then continues on his way. After a few weeks of this, the news dealer stops him one day and asks, “why don’t you ever buy the paper?” “Oh, I don’t really want the paper,” /1
Actually, my main reaction to the Times hit piece on Mamdani is, “if that’s all they’ve got the man must have lived a life as pure as the driven snow.” Quite a contrast to his rivals!
July 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Actually, my main reaction to the Times hit piece on Mamdani is, “if that’s all they’ve got the man must have lived a life as pure as the driven snow.” Quite a contrast to his rivals!
Hey @willbunch.bsky.social , I know you are a big Philly booster so I wanted to let you know that I had a great time in your hometown last weekend! I was there with some of my HS athletes for the New Balance Nationals at Franklin Field. We stayed downtown, it was lively, public transit was good /1
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hey @willbunch.bsky.social , I know you are a big Philly booster so I wanted to let you know that I had a great time in your hometown last weekend! I was there with some of my HS athletes for the New Balance Nationals at Franklin Field. We stayed downtown, it was lively, public transit was good /1
It seems to me that Trump’s asserted effort to balance the trade in goods with every other nation is a modern equivalent of bringing back the barter economy, at least as it applies to international trade. “We’ll swap our goods for your goods.” I wonder why we stopped doing that in ancient times?
April 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It seems to me that Trump’s asserted effort to balance the trade in goods with every other nation is a modern equivalent of bringing back the barter economy, at least as it applies to international trade. “We’ll swap our goods for your goods.” I wonder why we stopped doing that in ancient times?
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Listening to Patrick Wyman’s Tides of History on the middle Roman Republic while doing chores this morning. A couple of lines hit me like a brick: “Nothing was more dangerous for a state in the ancient world than elites who wanted to seize that state for themselves.”
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March 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Listening to Patrick Wyman’s Tides of History on the middle Roman Republic while doing chores this morning. A couple of lines hit me like a brick: “Nothing was more dangerous for a state in the ancient world than elites who wanted to seize that state for themselves.”
Apologies for the long thread but I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I had a great teacher at MIT, the economist Rudi Dornbusch. When discussing currency crises, which occur when confidence in a currency collapses and its value plummets, he would always say, /1
March 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Apologies for the long thread but I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I had a great teacher at MIT, the economist Rudi Dornbusch. When discussing currency crises, which occur when confidence in a currency collapses and its value plummets, he would always say, /1
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if rahm wants to run he is even more delusional than i thought www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
The former Chicago mayor is already on the hustings, finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
if rahm wants to run he is even more delusional than i thought www.politico.com/news/magazin...
MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board) rules this AM that the firing of 6 probationary employees in the Dept of Energy was an illegal reduction in force. Employees reinstated. Logic applies to all fired probationary employees.
February 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
MSPB (Merit Systems Protection Board) rules this AM that the firing of 6 probationary employees in the Dept of Energy was an illegal reduction in force. Employees reinstated. Logic applies to all fired probationary employees.
Just returned from a rally at the West Roxbury MA Veterans Admin hospital supporting laid off federal workers. Several hundred in attendance. Focus was on veterans services but support for all federal workers was expressed by the speakers. /1
February 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just returned from a rally at the West Roxbury MA Veterans Admin hospital supporting laid off federal workers. Several hundred in attendance. Focus was on veterans services but support for all federal workers was expressed by the speakers. /1
Even though Republicans were the drivers of the trade policies which helped drive manufacturing out of the Midwest in the 90’s, Democrats got most of the blame. Why? Because workers thought that the Democrats were there to protect them and they didn’t. 1/
February 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Even though Republicans were the drivers of the trade policies which helped drive manufacturing out of the Midwest in the 90’s, Democrats got most of the blame. Why? Because workers thought that the Democrats were there to protect them and they didn’t. 1/
There’s much to be afraid of in the US today. Musk is employing his “move fast and break things” mantra, but he and his youth corps don’t understand what they are dealing with and will certainly break many things. If they crash the economy, as seems possible if or even likely, things get ugly. /1
February 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There’s much to be afraid of in the US today. Musk is employing his “move fast and break things” mantra, but he and his youth corps don’t understand what they are dealing with and will certainly break many things. If they crash the economy, as seems possible if or even likely, things get ugly. /1
As we watch corruption overtake our government in real time, let’s not lose sight of one of the prime villains here: John Roberts. Roberts has done more than any other player to institutionalize corruption, starting with Citizens United. 1/2
January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As we watch corruption overtake our government in real time, let’s not lose sight of one of the prime villains here: John Roberts. Roberts has done more than any other player to institutionalize corruption, starting with Citizens United. 1/2
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!
Kennedy assassination.
What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?
Mine is OJ Simpson
Mine is OJ Simpson
December 18, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Kennedy assassination.
Willie Mays, Polo Grounds (as a SF Giant vs. the Mets, not as a NY Giant).
Quote this with the player name and ballpark of the first player you ever saw in person hit an MLB home run.
Mine was Johnny Bench at Shea Stadium.
Mine was Johnny Bench at Shea Stadium.
December 17, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Willie Mays, Polo Grounds (as a SF Giant vs. the Mets, not as a NY Giant).
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RFK Jr. potentially wanting to pull polio vaccine FDA approval deserves considerably more handwringing and consternation than Luigi Mangione killing that insurance CEO
December 13, 2024 at 2:53 PM
RFK Jr. potentially wanting to pull polio vaccine FDA approval deserves considerably more handwringing and consternation than Luigi Mangione killing that insurance CEO
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When elites talk about "civility," they mean it's time for the little people to shut up and mind their own business
"That wasn't the sound of fear. That was the sound of civility" -- Joe Scarborough makes an impassioned defense of the decision he and Mika made to defend Fox News from David Frum as well as their meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
December 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
When elites talk about "civility," they mean it's time for the little people to shut up and mind their own business
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November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
October 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)