I Was Really Pulling For Istambul

Hurray! The NYC made it to the final round in the race to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The City is going head to head with London, Madrid, Moscow and Paris. It's all very exciting....now all we need is 3.6 billion dollars to make it happen.
I went to the official Olympic website. The site encourages us to celebrate humanity. Cool. Guess who they want us to celebrate humanity with: Nelson Mandela, Andrea Bocelli, Christopher Reeve and Avril Lavigne (?). Ok, cause Avril Lavigne celebrates humanity in what way? Well I guess by using all that charcoal eyeliner, she's contributing to the GNP of some third world nation. Right on Avril!