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You've all probably seen this - President Obama filled out his brackets. This should be a seemingly small thing - just another political media distraction. But for a basketball fan, it's not. It's really actually very cool, and that's because the most important person in the world took time out of his schedule (a schedule that includes fixing the world's economy, creating a health care system for 300 million people, and actually reading that copy of the Constitution that his predecessor lost) to weigh the merits of 65 college basketball teams. I love that. But like a true bracketarian, he's got some illegible handwriting, cross-outs, and you can see that for this man of certitude and resolve, his humaness comes out in how his brackets are written - there is hesitancy, risk-taking, and sheer throwing caution to the wind in here. And that's why, boys and girls, March Madness is the most important thing in the world (besides steak), because it mirrors the human condition. Or at least the condition of people who have nothing better to do than fill out brackets...

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