http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/humor/check.asp

Seriously.

If you do come up with a punchline, find something that strokes my ego for going all anti-commercial this Christmas.

The static pages on this site don’t have comments fields.  So it has happened that commentators have gone to whatever the first post on the home page is and posted there.  This is the magnet for such posts.  You have almost completely free rein.  Talk about anything: talk about politics, about how much you hate my politics; about the site, or how much you hate the site; about me, or how much you hate me; about yourself, or how much you hate yourself; whatever.  It’s here.  I’ll make it as obvious as I can.

There are plenty of people here, I estimate, who would think I completely support this article.  I am here to disown it.  It is poorly-written, confrontational, unhelpful, rude, offensive, supercilious, bitter, and useless.  You are not helping, Polly Toynbee.

The one being, uh, Paul Anderson:

The Independent:

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 … was passed in November 1967, after Israel had occupied Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Sinai and Golan, and it emphasizes “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” and calls for “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict”.

Readers who know the problem here will be joined by those who will immediately pick it up. The Israelis say that they are not required to withdraw from all the territories — because the word “all” is missing and since the definite article “the” is missing before the word “territories”, its up to Israel to decide which bits of the occupied territories it gives up and which bits it keeps.

In related news, I was just given a parking ticket!  Can you believe it?  Yes, there was a sign that said “No parking”, but I told the cop that I didn’t park there on Wednesdays or Thursdays!  Just Saturday!  When I was not parking on Wednesdays, I was indeed not parking!

Egads.