Don't ask me why, I just found this little story hilarious, and I didn't want to wait until Christmas eve 2011 to post it.
While we're throwing around Christmas hilarity, this story is so ironic it made me giggle: The Next Person Who Says Happy Holidays Shall Be Punched In The Throat. It's not a humor piece, it's from an angry Christian who has simply taken the irrational obsession with Christmas being Christian to the unsurprising conclusion that saying something nice that does not promote his sectarian faith warrants physical abuse. Merry Christmas, crazy Christian…and I say it not because I'm afraid of being punched, but because I'm happily stealing the holiday back for the heathens.
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