You know how we’re always inviting submissions? Well, it’s paid off, at least for fans of Shakespeare.

The creator of the blog DaddyBear’s Den [“Episodes from the life of a middle aged dad”] saw the recent Julius Caesar parody here, and wrote:

Hi! I have a few blog posts that I published last month that might dovetail with the Caesar post from the other day. They’re a riff on MacBeth.

They are pretty great. I’ll just give a sample of them, here. Not a line is wasted in any of them, and parody and sarcasm do contend all the way through.

MacBiden

(“A ballot of the mind…”)

…

(“Now o’er the one halfwit
Voters seem dead…”)

MacBiden II

FIRST WITCH
Where shall we three meet again?
In Atlanta, or Phoenix, or in Philly town?

SECOND WITCH
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the election’s lost and won.

…

THREE WITCHES
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Make all the votes say “Biden” there.

MacBiden III

He parodies the famous “Double, double, toil and trouble” speech — but I don’t want to give away all of his humorous twists.

MacBiden IV

OK, just one more sample:

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and… something,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to… you know, the thing