This year, we have a plethora of ripe (and stinky) jokes to make each other miserable on this wonderful day.

(As I write this, it is still Tuesday, 31 March; no definite evidence that all of this really is just a series of really tasteless April fool pranks.

Start with an easy one: Has there been a regime change in Iran? Is the Islamic Republic a goner, or just shaking things up a bit? Or is it just more hype from the likes of The Donald and Vance?

Will Congress really make everyone start showing ID? Assuming that is really what the much-vaunted and much maligned Safe Act is really doing. And of course, the real joke will be on how many poll workers will be shown (and accept) an ID “card” with a really nice portrait on the green side of Alexander Hamilton?

Is the price of oil really going to drop back down to 2025 levels? Panicked as everyone is about the price of gasoline, fertilizer, and airplane tickets, it really isn’t much different than a mere 3-4 years ago under dear old dottering Uncle Joe, is it? It is as much the inflation as the closing of the seaways that is pushing fuel and other prices up.

Have the producers and all of the Star Trek franchise really really woken up to realize what a hash they’ve made of it with the latest offerings? Ditto for the Star Wars mega effort? (Oh, and is Firefly really coming back?)

But let us move on to other things:

Take the Artemis II mission. Is it really going to take off (did it take off)? I am hearing and seeing lots of people so, so excited. “We are going back to the moon! Hooray!!” But this is a classic of a prank or joke at the expense of those happy folks. Artemis II, four people, and billions of bucks are not going “back to the moon.” They are going around Luna. Not even as close as Apollo 8 did back in 1968 – 57 years ago. Oh, some people make a big deal about these four government employees going farther away from earth than anyone else has, but to us, it seems like a creepy prank.

There is medicine. What we are seeing now is indeed a really sick joke (pun intended). Even while more and more evidence is dug up (sometimes literally) that show how medicine and so-called “science” has teamed up with government for decades, even centuries? We see the same claims, tall tales, and lies pushed by the government johnnies. Especially but not just the State health departments, the medical schools, and your friendly local Big Pharma shill in the drug store. No indeed: the bureaucrats and judges are negating the efforts of people like RFKJr more quickly than the medical crusaders can push reforms and the truth.

In most all of these things, the one clear point is just who is the fool, the butt of the jokes. Who? Private, individual American families. And their counterparts around the world.

There are many more examples: feel free to share a few with us and our readers; drop a comment and tell us what you see as an April fools’ joke.