Given: what you feel is not a choice (at least not initially). But what you do is a choice (and totally in your control).
Who decided to rewrite the dictionary? It seems the words tolerance, support, intolerance, and neutrality have been confused a lot lately. If I disagree with the choices you make, but also disagree with anyone trying to stop you, does that make me intolerant?
Let's get something straight: anyone can post anything on social media any number of times. Yet, important daily decisions are made in business and government and science based on social media statistics. Does anyone else find this bizarre?
Samoa Air, an airline based in Samoa (duh) calculates passenger airfare based on a passenger's weight plus the weight of their baggage. I find it totally ironic, since the airline shares its name with the tastiest Girl Scout cookie ever. If the pay-by-the-pound paradigm catches on, I want to warn all my loved ones in other lands: get Skype, because otherwise you may never see me again.
A Michigan couple staged a domestic murder as an April Fool's Day prank so well that their friends called 911, resulting in police from 4 surrounding police departments responding within minutes. Yet, police in California are still having problems with people swatting (intentionally pranking police).
An 18-year-old Kentucky teen was cited for running into a bingo parlor and yelling "Bingo!" as a prank. His punishment is a court order that he not utter the word "Bingo" for six months. Your tax dollars at work, people.
A leaked environmental study reveals that a number of urban areas have anti-depressant residue in their tap water. The source: recycled toilet water from users who have poured their medicine into the toilet or who have eliminated it from their systems naturally (if you know what I mean). So, if water filtration systems aren't catching medications while cleaning and redirecting your drinking water, what else isn't getting caught?
Police in Moscow are trying to crack down on "ambulance taxis", luxury-style coaches disguised as ambulances that wealthy people are hiring at $200 per hour to get through bumper-to-bumper traffic. The irony of it is that police first learned of this service when they stopped one of these vehicles for breaking a traffic law. And, no, this is not an April Fool's prank.
Following an announcement from film actor Ryan Gosling that he would be taking a break from acting to focus on directing, a telephone hotline was set up with an audio recording of Gosling's scenes from The Notebook. The purpose of the hotline is to help his throngs of female fans who expect to go through "Ryan Gosling withdrawal." And no, this is not an April Fool's prank either.
The moral? April Fool's pranksters would really need to up their game to top the reality found in your local newspapers.
Agape' -- P
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