Beware the ides of March! William Shakespeare (not his real name) was a genius but I always thought that Old Soothsayer character was trash. Why should Julius Caesar, the original ruthless megalomaniac (ignoring Alexander the Great for a second), listen to some raggedy street hustler? Should he have also read some ill-boding omen into that three card monte game he lost the day before, or tipped the silver-painted robot guy a little more back in February?

Do those guys have any other political insight they’d care to pass on to ol’ JGC? What’s the price of grain doing to Egyptian exports, think they’re putting Cleopatra and Mark Antony in a bit of a pinch? Or how’s the treasury faring after that victorious but costly military campaign in Gaul? Hm? HMMMMMM?

Oh, you don’t know? Your entire existence is just a shoddy plot device to cast a pall over everything Caesar does for the rest of the play? It is? Do better, Billy Shaksper. Do better.

Today’s the first day of the NCAA Tournament, so it’s bye-bye productivity for anyone not driving a bus after twelve noon. Your boss should just give you the afternoon off. It’s a holiday, just like Masters weekend, Oaks Day, and all the other days live sports are on TV.

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