old-boomer.bsky.social
@old-boomer.bsky.social
Born (1946) and raised in New York City area — living in Dallas, TX area 🙄 since 1986, but a New Yorker to the marrow of my bones.
Degrees (economics) from New York University and Columbia University.
43 years with US Army Corps of Engineers, retired 2011.
If you think that it doesn’t include you yet, remember this: in the 19th century, they had exactly the same attitude towards Irish and Italian immigrants, that they were not fit to be called American. Once a stone starts rolling downhill, it doesn’t stop until it’s at the very bottom.
June 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s part of their drive – and they’re not even trying to hide it – to erase the existence and the memory of anything that doesn’t fall into line with their Christian white nationalism agenda.
June 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Once they figure out how the hell you put a tariff on a movie. Maybe 100% tariff on each ticket? And how do you put a tariff on a movie that isn’t even shown in the theater but is streamed on a service like Netflix?
May 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What place is this?
December 30, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Beautiful, tranquil images.
December 30, 2024 at 9:16 AM
To each his own. Personally, I prefer Dr. Seuss‘s take on the matter, and I’ll stick with that.
December 25, 2024 at 10:47 PM
“…that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

— George Elliot, “Middlemarch”
December 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Beautiful!
December 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
As the wise Dr. Seuss once observed, “Fun is good.“ It follows, logically, that anyone who thinks that fun is bad is probably evil. It’s a rule of thumb that holds up surprisingly well.
December 25, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Gold is okay, but what the heck would you actually do with frankincense and myrrh nowadays?😏
December 25, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Damn you, Wiley Coyote!
December 25, 2024 at 9:30 PM
The original Nosferatu in the 1920s was more horrifying—it was a groundbreaking and effective film.
December 15, 2024 at 8:29 AM
God help me, I love this.😊
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 AM
I can offer myself as an example of a non-stereotypical career in economics. With my degrees in economics, I enjoyed a 43-year career as an economist with the US Army Corps of Engineers, evaluating the economic feasibility of water resources civil works projects — making real people's lives better.
December 4, 2024 at 10:02 AM
I think this is true of other species as well.
December 4, 2024 at 9:35 AM