Missives from the Hinterlands

Julius Caesar was an ice-cold bastard. With one step across the Rubicon, he set into motion forces that would change the world irrevocably. He gave no speeches, held no rallies; he just muttered three simple words: "alia iacta est." It takes some balls to compare civil war and the strong possibility of a gruesome death with the a toss of a die, but there you have it.

Of course, we all know how it turned out for him.

No point to this. Just a stray thought on a gray, winter's day.