Posted On: Friday - April 1st 2022 6:08PM MST
In Topics: Humor Pundits Holiday from Stupidity
That's for the same reason Professor Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, gives in one of his usual well-written quick blurbs on his long-running blog-site. I have recently dissed the guy a bit for falling back into that anti-Russian Neoconnery. I gotta say, he's pretty good most of the time:
Maybe you can't read that, so:
IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY, that InstaPundit appeared as AOL/InstaPundit.com, and The Register reported the takeover. Pretty much the only serious April Fool joke done on this blog. Nowadays the actual news is crazy enough to make the idea of an April Fool pointless.Heh.
Indeed.
Faster, please!
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Moderator
Saturday - April 2nd 2022 3:53PM MST
PS: Good one, Robert!
Robert
Saturday - April 2nd 2022 3:40PM MST
PS: No Comments? Ain't people got no respect for all your hard work?
Well, not an April Fool's joke --- I quit those around the age of ten or twelve --- but a joke based on tomorrow's (Sunday's) (Novus Ordo) Gospel reading:
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down and wrote in the dust.
Suddenly, from the back of the crowd someone threw a small stone, that landed at the feet of the adulterous woman.
Jesus turns around to see who did this, and says "Mom!"
Well, not an April Fool's joke --- I quit those around the age of ten or twelve --- but a joke based on tomorrow's (Sunday's) (Novus Ordo) Gospel reading:
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down and wrote in the dust.
Suddenly, from the back of the crowd someone threw a small stone, that landed at the feet of the adulterous woman.
Jesus turns around to see who did this, and says "Mom!"
And now, this is no joke: How stupidity came about and how it could be fought with the help of God:
https://vdare.com/articles/the-genius-famine-the-death-of-religion-will-lead-to-the-death-of-genius-and-the-death-of-civilization