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Pecchia: Groton Road Race AKA the first race of the year
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Monday, April 27, 2015. Groton Road Race AKA the first race of the year. Since 2007, with one exception in a very hot race day, I have been running between 44 and 45 minutes for the 10K. This year, I went in cautiously and did not go all-out but still ran 44:44! Here are some pics. At the start, nervously clapping after the national anthem. Passing slower runners in the last half mile. Photos from Jim Rhodes of CoolRunning. Feast of St&...
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Pecchia: Intersections
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Tuesday, March 03, 2015. We made a trip to NYC two weeks ago and engaged in some ad hoc. Activities and some events that were planned well in advance. Having gone to the show, we were following the competition during our stay by watching the happenings at Madison Square Garden on the hotel room TV. We even set a recording on our home DVR since we would be driving back on that day and might miss the show. Subscribe To This Blog. Feast of...
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Pecchia: Stephen King: (Choose Your Adjective)
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Monday, March 23, 2015. Stephen King: (Choose Your Adjective). As I skimmed through this Stephen King piece. In the Daily Beast, I struggled with which word best described the things he was saying: Dishonest, unhinged, illogical, I couldn't pick one and so will do a abbreviated Fisking. I pointed out that I was paying taxes of roughly 28 percent on my income. My question was, “How come I’m not paying 50? Why pay more tax? The rich peopl...
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Pecchia: Validation: Very Late And Randomly Discovered
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Monday, February 02, 2015. Validation: Very Late And Randomly Discovered. Some years ago, when we lived in Vermont, I got it into my head to swim across Lake Champlain. It seemed easy; there was New York just a couple of miles away. But it turned out to be pretty complicated:. One needs to find a place to start and a place to end and they need to be roughly across from each other and neither too far apart nor too close. I believe that m...
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Pecchia: Unnecessary Violence Problem Solved
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Friday, March 06, 2015. Unnecessary Violence Problem Solved. According to President Obama:. 8220;As long as you can go in some neighborhoods and it is easier for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book, there are neighborhoods where it is easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable, as long as that’s the case, we’re going to continue to see unnecessary violence,”. Feast of St. ...
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Who Belongs in the Hall of Fame? | Chip's Perspective
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What Makes a Baseball Player “Most Valuable”? Today in Ukraine →. December 1, 2013 · 8:58 pm. Who Belongs in the Hall of Fame? Is to be believed, winning it was the truly Big Deal, with the World Series a bit of icing on the cake:. I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You’d think I could just this once, wouldn’t you? I didn’t care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied. 8221;* Baseball is a game in which small differences in executio...
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What Makes a Baseball Player “Most Valuable”? | Chip's Perspective
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Martin Bashir Isn’t Even a Competent Leftist. Who Belongs in the Hall of Fame? November 17, 2013 · 7:56 pm. What Makes a Baseball Player “Most Valuable”? Judgment. There are plenty of examples, such as this one. By Dave Cameron at Fangraphs (a site that has consistently mismeasured the value of a win. Another example of an off-puttingly high ratio of self-regard to actual merit has been written by NBC Sports columnist Joe Posnanski. What’s the “quality” aspect of player value? The Posnanski/Cameron posit...
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Pecchia: Poor Leadership AND A Bad Deal
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Poor Leadership AND A Bad Deal. The polls are all over the place on the "Iran Nuclear Deal", with one of the latest showing the public opposed to the deal by nearly two to one. See the WP story here. Since the deal is not popular, we can only conclude that it is a bad deal. And Obama is a bad leader. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To This Blog. Poor Leadership AND A Bad Deal. Trump goes to Mexico.
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Pecchia: This Is How You Retract A Story (and this is how not to do it)
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Sunday, March 01, 2015. This Is How You Retract A Story (and this is how not to do it). First: The Good. From The Daily Beast. Walker Unfairly Attacked on College Rape - ORIGINAL STORY RETRACTED. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to delete the requirement that universities report sexual assault cases has been incorrectly reported by the Beast and others. Here is how not to do it, from the original source. Which got it wrong:. The Bitmalest...
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Pecchia: MoMA portraits
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Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever! Monday, February 23, 2015. We worked ourselves from the bottom floor upwards and the art got progressively better as we went: One final bit were portraits and I liked them a lot. Self-Portrait with a Cigarette" by Max Beckmann. Another self portrait of the artist as he paints a portrait of a model. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To This Blog. MSM And A Tale of Two Stories. The Trump/Clinton race is now tied. Latest Posts ...