John McCain: “She said, ‘Why did I want to discriminate against women?’ Teeheehe…” May 10, 2008

John McCain stopped by The Daily Show Wednesday to remind us what a pig he is.

“Today there was a very attractive young woman with a tee shirt that said ‘John McCain Doesn’t Represent Me’ … So I called on her and asked her what it was that she’d like to say. That’s the essence…”

I realize the man is, what, 120-years-old? But can’t he at least try to hide his old-fashioned way of thinking for a few minutes? Like we really needed to know the woman was attractive. Because that has SO MUCH to do with what she had to say.

When Jon Stewart cut McCain off to actually ask him what the woman (who, in case you forgot, was very attractive and young!) had to say, a surprised McCain nervously chuckled, “She said, ‘Why did I want to discriminate against women?’”

I don’t get what’s so funny about that question. But I probably shouldn’t be worrying my young pretty little head, now should I?

I have a feeling McCain will be moving into the White House in a few months and I am terrified. TERRIFIED.

Hello Kitty Airline, Airport, Soap Dispensers, Barf Bags May 2, 2008

Well apparently this isn’t new news but since I just learned of it a few minutes ago, it’s news to me and I’m really just at a loss for words.

There are actual Hello Kitty airplanes that fly in and out of cute, cuddly, cartoonishly-feline airports that carry on board chairs, soap, food, people, entertainment, sugar, napkins, toothpicks, and barf bags bedecked with the white, bow-adorned Hello Kitty that apparently has reached idol-worshipping proportions. No, really. God should be getting worried. I understand that there’s a pretty major commandment regarding having no false idols or something along those lines - are there airplanes bedecked with His image*? That within it contain chairs, soap, food, people, entertainment, sugar, napkins, toothpicks, and barf bags also bedecked with His image?

I wonder how Hello Kitty feels about gay marriage.

Also, apparently I’m not at a loss for words.

*Such airplanes/airports/in-flight accessories do not exist. I googled both “jesus airline” and “god airline” and the only results worth noting were an article about a pilot promoting Christianity on a flight (American spokesman: “That would be against our policy”), and an article explaining that officials at Nepal’s state-run airline sacrificed two goats to appease the hindu sky god. The only conclusions I can draw from this are as follows:

• There are no airlines to my knowledge bedecked in God’s image
• Too bad that pilot wasn’t in Nepal, he probably would have gotten a kick out of the goat-sacrificing
• I’ve had too much to drink tonight

Annie’s New Album Is Apparently A “Complete Modern Masterpiece” May 1, 2008

The neener-neenerheads of Popjustice have somehow managed to hear the new Annie album, ‘Don’t Stop’, and apparently it’s really fucking good. I don’t know how they’ve managed to hear it… I’m pretty jealous. But that’s neither here nor there. This is what’s important: there’s a song with call-and-response vocals between Annie and fucking Girls Aloud. That song also apparently features guitar work by Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, which I only mentioned as a sneaky name-dropping technique for those of you FF fans out there.

Here’s the video for the first single, ‘I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me”:

Here’s my favorite song from her last LP, ‘Anniemal‘:

Here’s another amazing song from Anniemal: