The first of April

April Fool’s Day apparently traces its origins to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The gist of a shallow dive into the search engines reveals no one knows where the idea of playing (usually) harmless practical jokes on April 1 came from.

Sometimes I see a headline and come to the conclusion that someone has declared it Fool’s Year or Fool’s Decade or the Century of the Fools; forget about having a single day to pull the wool over people’s eyes in fun, although some of this isn’t...