Just to clear the air: I was not “betrayed by Caesar,” I was making a professional judgment call. by Marcus Junius Brutus

You showed up in a gold chair like the job was already yours.

Anyway, history can keep the quote but I’m keeping the principle.

Cicero, please, you spent half your life rehearsing speeches at everybody.

And you spent half yours acting shocked when the calendar got personal.

Professional judgment? You brought the whole office to the meeting.

This is why Rome had enemies and I had chapters.

Brutus really said “it’s not you, it’s the Republic.”

Both of you are exhausting, but I do love a memo written in bloodless prose.