Do We Need to Believe in Lies?

The king is in on the joke?

So it’s April Fool’s Day. I was goofing around and looked up “fool” on a couple of online dictionaries and considered the synonyms in noun, adjective, and verb form, half-expecting to see “Meg” in there somewhere. Not sure whether I’m disappointed or relieved to see that it wasn’t. So far today I haven’t seen any hoaxes on the news, but on Wikipedia I read about the compelling 1957 BBC April Fool’s Day hoax–the one where they reported that a mild Alpine winter made...