April is the cruelest month

Thus sayeth T.S. Eliot somewhere or other. As you know, it’s the 1st of April, a day for “fooling.” And indeed, in the history of this blog, I have often used the occasion for fun, such as my most-viewed-post-of-all time, this interview with former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld. Using my patented blog-interview format, I also presented interviews with notables such as Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, and just last year, Donald J. Trump.
Thing is, we are now in a world where everything goes and nothing matters, the world’s most prolific liars accuse others of spreading “fake news,” the most obvious lies are deemed “alternative facts,” and much of what transpires seems designed as a clever artifice (by a hostile foreign power no less) to advance false news stories benefiting one candidate (though seemingly not one party). In short, we have arrived at “the end.”
April Fool’s jokes are no longer really that funny, given where “reality” has gone. Indeed, I’m finding the blog format (at least mine, where I spend at least a little time exploring and discussing something) to be cumbersome– quite frankly, I can’t keep up, and the irony is that the stupid, but frenetic Twitter format, which I my good friend Donald J. Putin (btw, please follow me my friend Donald J. Putin at twitter) has taken up residence is better suited to a news cycle of potentially dozens of (often insane) events a day.
I don’t know; it seems to me that nothing this insanely frenetic– particularly from a candidate who had no plan if he won— can possibly go on indefinitely, but then, what do I know? All I can say is that I find myself “humor challenged.” I’ll just suggest we all take a moment of silence for the victims of the Bowling Green Massacre.