Marathon 2025: national records, emotions and lots of idiots

On 12th of October 2025, two things happened at different hours, because the time zone. Both in Romania, and in US, the national marathon record was beaten. The similarities stop here, though, because the difference between Bucharest Marathon and Chicago Marathon are exactly like the ones between the cities, and even the two countries altogether….

How many degrees from the idiot are you?

“You” is the generic noun, it has not got any target on its back. By coincidence, exactly in the period in which I am reading “The Idiot”, Mike Prince, the character from “Billions”, had a great speech, about “how many degrees from the idiot are you?” He gave an example with the quarter back from…