April Fools is Cancelled This Year

Since the Onion dropped their fake news format in January in favor of serious reporting, it's become clear that the web's April Fools Day would be very different this year. Why make stuff up when real life is so hard to believe?

All my ideas for a satirical blog posts seemed too sadly realistic. After people thought my April 1 post last year was real, all my ideas for fake posts about false privacy and the All Writs Act seemed cruel. I thought about doing something about power inequity in libraries and publishing, but then all my crazy imaginings came true on the ACRL SCHOLCOMM list.

So no April Fools post on Go To Hellman this year. Except for this one, of course.