Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention war hero?) John McCain

I seem to be getting a lot of first time visitors to the site lately… and a lot of them hit the wall around page 3. So I thought I’d make it a little easier for people to find the older stuff by putting together a very unscientific list of the top posts (based on page views, number of comments, ones that I think really help make my case, and ones that I just thought were funny)… and here they are:

Assorted Diatribes
Ageism
A day in the life of a middle-class Republican

Books
The Grapes of Wrath

Codes
The Zip Code

Discoveries
Oil in the desert
Penicillin

Foods
The York Peppermint Pattie
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
Cheerios

Images
A McCain campaign banner ad I wish we’d see
McCain goes after the youth vote
“Caption this photo” contest

Organizations
Mensa

People
Cindy McCain
Larry Flynt
Keith Richards
Ronald Reagan
My Mother
91% of America

Products
The Slinky
Scrabble
Duct Tape

Videos
McCain loses it on birth control issue
McCain says that his age is an issue

The Margarita is younger than John McCain.

Matt G. from the UK just wrote in with this great suggestion off of my earlier treatise on the Nacho - thanks Matt!

The origin of the Margarita is a subject of heated debate (well, at least among the five or six people who lay claim to its invention) but my favorite has to be that it was created by Enrique Bastate Gutierrez in the early 1940’s as an homage to Rita Hayworth, whose real name was Margarita Cansino (”Cansino” being Spanish for “drink until you can’t feel anything from the waist down”).

Penicillin is younger than John McCain.

In 1942, when John McCain was presumably an unvaccinated 6 year old, John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first physicians in the world to successfully treat a patient using Penicillin. At the time, they could not possibly comprehend what this breakthrough would mean for children, soldiers, and Paris Hilton.
(Thanks Fididdly, Beth, Jennifer, David, Andy, Robert, Electioneer, and “d” for the tip!)

The Marijuana Tax Act is younger than John McCain.

This law didn’t specifically make pot illegal - it simply levied a tax of a dollar on anyone who dealt in cannabis or hemp (and there were some pretty hefty fines and the possibility of jail time, too). So does this mean that, when McCain was born, it was completely legal to get baked?
Ah, the good, really, really, really, really old days.
(Thanks Jen and countless others for the tip!)

LSD is younger than John McCain.

LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by a Swiss chemist named Dr. Albert Hofmann - who recently passed away at the ripe old age of 102 (so much for clean living).
(Thanks to Adam and Matt for the tip!)