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The Museum of Hoaxes has a list of the top 100 best all-time April Fools Day Hoaxes.
#26 involves several Connecticut newspapers announcing their sale to the Soviet news organization, TASS.
They got calls of the usual variety and then some:

When the publishers tried to explain that the article had been an April Fool’s prank, the caller [...]

Veronica Khokhlova has beautiful pictures taken afar of a jewish wedding in Ukraine.
Her building sits across from the synagogue, providing an interesting angle on the proceedings:

Just after sunset yesterday, I heard what sounded like singing outside. I looked out of the window and saw a couple dozen people gathered on the roof of the synagogue [...]

I’m inclined to think that we Americans have an upper hand dissecting the current state of Major League Baseball.
Nevertheless, the Koreans are all sorts of ahead of us when deploying their pictorial analysis of the Giants.

Amazon’s somtimes useful user reviews are sometimes hilarious as well.
A book about Flash web programming bore a comment explaining why Flash Intros exist at all:

I bought this book because its fine printing and attractive title.

This line of questioning is malicious and conniving, but delicious nonetheless:

Q How is the President going to mark the second anniversary of our war against Iraq and the start of the third year?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, there’s still a few days off until the date that we began the liberation of Iraq, and –
Q The invasion [...]

Christopher Hitchens and other quasi-qualmist hawks are trying to bolster their fractured justifications for the war. They assert that post invasion looting at Iraqi weapon dumps indicates the presence of WMDs.

If Saddam’s people could have made such a transfer after his fall, then they could have made it much more easily during his reign. (We [...]

Andrew Sullivan provides a sort of alarmist take on modern communication.
Supposedly, President Bush stopped using email the minute he was voted into office:

Private correspondence form [sic? some sort of political communication fu?] politicians is now restricted to verbal, face-to-face communication in secure locations with a tiny cadre of loyal apparatchiks. And people wonder why this [...]

I don’t know why a profile of Arrested Development’s Portia De Rossi includes more quotes from David Cross than the profilee, but I do appreciate the effort.
About the show’s survival, no one is optimistic:

“The ratings aren’t that great,” Cross admits. “The mass of American viewers aren’t that bright or clever or have the patience with [...]

From a NY Times editorial on reading and writing.

A dismaying Carnegie Foundation report entitled “Reading Next” shows that the states have set the reading achievement bar very low so students can be moved from grade to grade - even though about 70 percent enter the first year of high school reading below grade level.

As I [...]