A few years ago I saw an equation: Caesar - Brute = Awesome, followed by Brute SUCKS! I thought the equation was a little self-fulfilling.
Granted, this was Post-Ides-of-March. Sure, it took a fortnight or a dozen moons before we heard about it in Iberia but it was still scary! The world had changed. Our navigator was now being played by an infant. How we rued the Ides. The Denarius started to drop and we didn't know why the rock tax had increased, we had plenty of resources but our taxes were INCREASING! Caesar had brought us redistribution of land, public works projects, and then he was gone, our captain was brought down by the very hand that had once lifted him.
Now several years later, everything appears to be going "okay", sure the Denarius has recovered a little and the symposium rate is at it's lowest point since the index was created (Don't like to Marcus's Happy Fortnight stump speech, this may be assisting us in a national security sense, but it is really hurting the wine industry), but there have been no attacks on the Ides of any month so I guess the the new Caesar is doing alright. Oh and the rock tax still sucks.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident
And an added bonus feature!
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911060002
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