Should We Celebrate or Mourn Caesar’s Death, and Other Links
Remembering Caesar: Should we celebrate or mourn his assassination on the ides of March? David Henderson does the calculus.
Can animals be virtuous? No. They can’t be wicked either.
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Don Morran: Today’s tax code generally favors small businesses over larger ones. But, small businesses face disproportionately high costs in complying with it.
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The study of pain medication prescriptions from the Workers Comp system in California also found something like the top 1 percent of doctors prescribed around one-third of schedule II opioid drugs.
Thumbs down.
On Caesar, that is.
I think I would have to give Caesar a thumbs up. My history is really rusty, but weren’t all the rulers who came after him much worse.
Certainly Roddy McDowell looked a lot more evil than Rex Harrison in the movie Cleopatra.
Larry, we are going to let Twentieth Century Fox decide whether Caesar was a good guy or bad guy?
If we’re like the majority of Americans, we’ll make some rushed judgment about Caesar (probably in his favor) and then go to the bar for the Ides of March drink specials.