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

This lovely cover of Popular Science magazine is younger than 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

Playboy Magazine is younger than John McCain.

Playboy Magazine debuted in 1953. John McCain was born in 1936. So, by my math, that puts him at 17 years old when the first issue hit the stands… damn near the perfect age. I’m guessing he - along with his contemporaries Vaclav Havel, Silvio Berlusconi, James Dobson (the conservative wingnut), and Roger Miller (the king of the road) - pretty much exploded. (Al Goldstein, on the other hand, saw his future.)

I really don’t understand Playboy - I mean, it’s 2008… is anyone actually buying this magazine? There are hotter photos in the Newport News catalog, my eight year old second cousin tells funnier jokes, and I could give a crap what Don Rickles and William H. Macy are each up to these days. Much like McCain, the magazine is a dinosaur - headed for extinction thanks in large part to the Internet.

And don’t even get me started about “Hef”. Put some clothes on, stop pretending that the Viagra still works, and stop kidding yourself that these girls actually like you.

Woman’s Day Magazine is younger than John McCain.

Woman’s Day, which was originally an in-store recipe planner, became a full-fledged magazine in the year John McCain was born. It sold for 2¢ and featured articles on crafts, cooking, home decoration, needlework, and more.

I wonder how its founders - along with their current subscriber base of 4,200,000 - feel about this little bit of “straight talk” directed at Cindy McCain by her loving husband:

“At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you….”

Well, we all know how it ends. So nice, so Presidential.