I’ve never really been a fan of April Fool’s Day. The concept of fooling people doesn’t really fill me with joy, particularly when at least 70% of the tricks are not that funny. As use of the internet becomes more prevalent, it’s getting even harder to like the idea. A good percentage of my day is spent trying to figure out what is real and what is not on the internet.

I am not a fan of April Fool’s day, particularly now that things on the internet are so hard to believe anyway. You have to take everything with a pinch of salt, and so these days the jokes are either really obvious, or so obscure that I don’t get them anyway. I remember one joke from several years ago, a good one, in fact. The local newspaper issued a fake cover on top of the real one that suggested the valley was going to be flooded to make a reservoir for some nearby, and larger, towns.