No Kidding

April Fools' Day is already a dumb holiday.  It's even worse when it falls on Monday.  Who needs to start the work week with stupid pranks.

Actually, if you're a good prankster (if a prankster can ever be good), you should do it on March 31st, or April 2, when no one suspects it.  Or perhaps promise a big prank on April 1 and then not deliver.

I feel sorry for the .0027 of the public born on this day.  Every time you announce your birthday, someone thinks you're kidding.

That's another bad thing about this day--you're never sure what's real.  Serious news happens on April 1st, like any other date, but the public isn't sure how to take it.

Actually, I wonder if someone can't use that.  Say, the CEO of a company announces a new initiative on April 1, and if it works, great, if not, it was just a prank.  Or the president says we're going to war.  He can check the polling to see how it plays.  If the numbers are bad, well, guess what, "April Fools!"