Message From The Editor of Off-Grid Newsletter

Upon realizing that today was April Fool's Day, I thought I would research the beginning of this tradition (do I really call it a holiday?) to share with you. Well, it turns out that no one is 100 percent sure when, where, and how this day started... only that it obviously did many years ago.

Am I the only one who feels like our country is caught in a weird sort of perpetual April Fool's Day? Laws limiting how much soda adults are allowed to drink, saying it's okay for your gun to shoot ten bullets but not eleven, and furloughing and firing middle-class Americans while the triple-digit-earning goons who got us in this mess sit pretty in Washington... it continues to prove that the truth really is stranger than fiction.

Joseph Boskin, a professor at Boston University, actually offered up a (prank) version of how the day started many years ago, saying that it began when a court jester was made king for a day. Is it just me, or does it seem like that's exactly what happened here in America? Except, of course, that instead of a twenty-four-hour term limit, we're stuck with fools who get to rule for two, four, six, and eight years--or more!

And when did all the court jesters start running the place? Despite all the finger pointing that both sides like to do, it's pretty hard to nail down an exact time that America's downslide started. Like April Fool's Day, we aren't really sure who started it all--we just know it's been around for a while and doesn't appear to be going anywhere soon.

And honestly my friends, that's why I live the off-the-grid lifestyle. Because when it all hits the fan, I don't plan to be the fool standing there unprepared.

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The Editor
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