VBVW for July 7, 2007:
The Goddess and the Godless

• The Very Best

Living goddess Sajani Shakya, currently worshipped as a deity in Nepal, has been stripped of her divinity after traveling to the U.S. Apparently, leaving town counts as a violation of “purity” and means she can’t be God anymore. Sajani will now get to go and live a normal life like all the other 10-year old girls in Kathmandu.

Paleontologists have found a million-year old human tooth in Spain. The molar is the oldest fossil evidence of humans living in Western Europe. Sadly for those intelligent designers who believe the world is only 6,000 years old, the Bible will have to be rewritten to take this piece of hard scientific evidence into account.

Former Liberian president Charles Ghankay Taylor made a surprise appearance at a trial for atrocities he committed against Sierra Leone during that country’s decade long civil war. Taylor had previously boycotted the proceedings, so maybe he’s had a change of heart and just really wants to see justice done.

• The Very Worst

Terrorists rammed a burning Jeep into the Glasgow airport. Even curbside check-in has become as dangerous as flying. The drive-thru attack was one of several car-bomb plots this week planned by a handful of Muslim doctors who apparently got the Hippocratic oath all wrong.

Sochi has been selected as the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Never heard of it? It’s in Russia. Yeah, we’re not making any plans to go there, either.

President Bush liberated “Scooter” Libby by commuting his prison sentence, proving that a jury of one’s peers means squat if one has other peers in high places. The president continues his bid to star in the next Above The Law sequel.