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April Fools' Day is a day for light-hearted hijinks without real consequences. Embracing foolishness as public policy is a far different notion altogether. The Cuba embargo is one of several fixtures in American politics that requires a suspension of disbelief.
The Israeli-Palestinian peace breakthrough apparently came when Israel agreed to give Palestinians the credit for inventing falafel. The Palestinians, in return, said "Without Israel, there would be no hummus."
Having worked tirelessly in the past few months to stock enough fake puke and remote control fart machines for his normal April Fool's Day business, yesterday's message from the mayor came as a huge blow.
If the Volcker Rule is implemented as planned, that would have a major negative effect on the bond yields paid by the Muppets and other leading providers of children's entertainment. No one else will ever trade these bonds to any significant degree.
It's time to get serious. Women aren't funny and the world is going to end this year. Given these two indisputable truths, it's time for me to quit comedy and devote my life to preparing for the apocalypse.
But allow me a Lenten season confession of a penchant for the practical, the rational, and the empirical. I love science. I always have. Science does not depend on belief.
This week brought a slew of April Fools' jokes from our media brethren. Hulu remade its page to look like it was 1996 -- ancient history in Internet terms. Google introduced "Gmail motion," a tool that allows users to send emails by using their body. YouTube offered the top 5 viral videos of 1911. And we had a little fun of our own. There were also a number of stories that felt like April Fools' jokes but, unfortunately, were all too real. There was Donald Trump doubling down on Birther-ism, releasing his birth certificate and calling for the president to release his; pastor/kook Terry Jones finally burning a Quran and igniting violent protests in Afghanistan that led to the killing of a dozen people, including seven UN workers. And there was our nation's capital -- a town full of true April fools -- still obsessed with spending cuts in the midst of a recession.
To clarify that title: when you pull a prank on this particular day, you're supposed to reveal yourself as the prankster by yelling "April Fools!" (or...
April fools is for laughs and kicks. But the pranks should stop when it comes to cutting life saving assistance.
After polling this year's crop of amusing falsities, we present the finest "news" stories in music for this first day of April 2011:
April 1st is the Internet's favorite day, and food bloggers were all over it this year. Here are the seven funniest foodie fools we saw around the web...
My inner prankster took a hiatus, finally revived last April when I found myself working amidst fellow jokesters. We worked together, and against one another, to devise several office pranks that would make Jim Halpert proud.
It might be interesting if the news indulged in a little April foolery, and, if they did, it might look something like these ten stories.
This week a prominent climate-cynics site, Watt's Up With That, promoted a climate-misinformation iPhone app that contains far more damaging Orwellian language than the Sierra Club's coal industry spoof.
My husband went grocery shopping the other day and came home with my favorite cookies. You're waiting for me to say, "April Fool," aren't you?
