Yes, yesterday was April Fool's Day

1. On Wednesday morning, a couple from Paradise was found dead by the maid at a Budget Inn in Marysville. Despite the religious nature of the city names, apparently, the man, 63, had shot the woman, 57, with a large-caliber handgun before shooting himself.

QUESTION: Shouldn't at least two shots from a "large-caliber" gun have been heard by someone? and,

NOTE TO SELF: It's kind of tacky to commit suicide at a Budget Inn. Save up enough money to rent a nicer room. Loving heirs will excuse your extravagance, and should applaud your social consciousness.

2. For the 29th year, "Pancakes for Peace" will be held on Sunday. For $12, adults can have all-you-can-eat organic pancakes (as opposed to inorganic?) with maple syrup (hopefully not corn syrup with fake maple flavor), and fruit salad (right from untreated trees?). The event is a fundraiser for the Peace and Justice Center, a local group that espouses peace, a non-existent concept on which they have wasted 29 years, and the justice of preferential treatment for assorted minorities.

3. NEWS FROM ONE OF EIGHT COLLEGE TOWNS VOTED AMERICA'S BEST: On Cesar Chavez Day, there were 43 arrests, 27 of them students. (That'll show those Hibernians.) It should be FORMER students, if the "University" only had the guts to suspend, and upon conviction, expel them.