In defense of having a dumb thing to care about

It’s your civic responsibility to have a March Madness bracket.

High Point’s win over Wisconsin was the first upset of the season. (C. Morgan Engel)

In February, approximately 59 percent of America’s full-time workers planned to put money in an office bracket pool. Not all of that 59 percent had watched a regular-season college basketball game in the past year or could name the coach of the team they’d picked to win …