Speaking of Pranks
Remember when the National Post ran that cover story about a new law in Iran demanding that Jews there wear yellow badges to identify themselves as Jews?
I fell for that one. Totally. And I was, deep down, hoping that Israel would just bomb Iran, flatten it, completely wipe it off the map - that's how sick I was of Arab countries and all their threats.
Then it turned out to be not true at all and instead Iran was planning a new law to demand that women dress more conservatively (which nobody cared about for some reason) and it was semi-mea-culpas all 'round except for National Post readers who were all like, "Yabbut, it COULD have happened which makes it just as real as if it DID happen". And the National Post which was all like, "It's still nooze!"
Phew. I'm glad to get that off my chest about Iran. Seriously. I was like, "Fuck you, Iran!" And pumping my fist, "Yes!", when Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter responded to the "new law" saying, "Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."
But I'm glad now it happened because then when Bush Inc. was all about starting WWIII with Iran, I wasn't all over it like a cheap suit because I'd already been had by the National Post.
Pick your armchair battles, I always say. Like, now I always say it. After I just said it two sentences ago.
