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Friday, 2 April 2010

You've Been Had

Piranhas escaping the national aquarium swamping The Baltic Sea. The Round Tower of Copenhagen to be exported to Norway. Live chickens in chocolate Easter eggs. The paintings by Danish Queen Margrethe II stolen from museum. British PM Gordon Brown to appear in election campaign as an alpha male bully. Former PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen found to be a decendent of a Turkish pirate.

By tradition, April 1st has all the jesters come out to play. None more eagerly than media people. Sadly April 1st seems to continue all year round. If only the sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church (in USA, in Ireland, in Denmark, or whereever) were part of the April 1st jests. If only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was too. But hey, there's always next April 1st!

Paradoxical News has covered many paradoxical stories for more than eighteen months now. The stories keep pouring in. If only the funds did too. PN is a bit like the now abandoned bumble bee theory: it shouldn't be able to fly. Well, ladies and gentlemen: You've been had!