I don't know whether it's me or whether there's something in the water, but isn't it April Fool's Day?

So how come no one is laughing or joking?

Things are too serious, and I'm not all that convinced it's because events are any more or any less serious than usual. Rather, I think people are succumbing to a disease called Taking Themselves Too Seriously.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm just not seeing much April Fools humor anywhere.

And if you've read this far today, you'll see that even my blog has been (to borrow from Ryan Sager via InstaPundit) cuckholded!

And once that happens, it's always feeding time!

Ryan Sager's piece reminded me of what Neal Boortz (hardly a flaming liberal) said recently:

Definition needed. Just how do you define a religious extremist? I define a religious extremist as anyone who wants to use the power of law -- and that means deadly force -- to force their religious principals on someone else. Someone who openly calls for a theocracy in America, as Randall Terry has done, is an extremist. Randall Terry is at the center of the Florida controversy. Bush's actions were seen by some as pandering to Randall Terry. These Florida hospice protestors who wandered down the street about 10 days ago to harass an auto shop owner for daring to work on a Sunday would be examples of religious extremists. Bush's actions were seen as pandering to these zealots. This frightens people. Many Americans become a little concerned when they see their president going out of the way to meet the demands of people who openly call for a theocracy and who hammer someone who is working on Sunday to make ends meet while raising his two sons alone.

Now ... I can assure you that what I have written thus far here in Nealz Nuze will bring more hate mail with more of those childish "I'm never going to listen to you again" closes. To many it is absolutely forbidden to say anything that can be construed as negative about anyone who expresses a strong Christian belief. To do so means that you don't love Jesus. If you say that you don't want to live under Randall Terry's idea of a Christian theocracy, you don't love Jesus. If you say that a man working hard to support his family shouldn't be harassed because he works on Sunday, you don't love Jesus. If you say that while you admire the religious devotion shown by some devout Christians, but that you don't want them telling you how to live your life, you don't love Jesus.

I'll never forget a particular reaction to a new joke I heard and repeated back in the late 1970s. You've probably heard it but here's the joke:

Q. How many Berkeley lesbian feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

A. That's not funny!

She repeated the punchline. Louder, angrier, with heavy emphasis on the word "NOT."

Nothing funny about jokes or humor these days.

It's all work and no play!

We all have responsibilities to attend . . .