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