A Free Pass for Jackasses
One day each year every jackass has the wonderful privilege of being given a free ride. Their asshattery is overlooked, perhaps even found amusing. This day is April 1st, perhaps better known as April Fool’s Day.
Coming off like that it probably sounds as if I am cynical about the whole thing. “He’s been fooled one to many times” you are no doubt thinking. You would be wrong. That assumption would be incorrect because on this day I choose to go about my normal schedule, read all the things I normally would, and then dismiss them, the realistic with the ridiculous, because the whole day is a sham.
“On the second,” I swear to myself each year, “I shall wade through the bullshit to pick out the nuggets of truth like so much unchewed corn.” I consider that my April Fool’s prank to myself. I never laugh at it.
It seems to be customary, apparently, to recap the events of the day tomorrow, pointing out to everyone, in case it was not abundantly clear already, just exactly what was a load of horseshit and what was not.
To spit on the spirit of the day I will now say something wholly truthful. In the month of April I will post at least one post every day. Of course, if for some reason this is not the case, will I just say that this was in fact my April Fool’s joke? Or perhaps it is, in fact, my April Fool’s joke and this lead up has all been about setting the proper tone? Unfortunately for both you and I, we shall only discover the answer to that mystery at the end of the month.
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