VBVW for September 28, 2007: Of Mormons and Monks

• The Very Best •

Fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs is convicted on two counts of aiding and abetting underage rape. Wouldn’t you just love to hear how he’s going to explain this to Jesus?

Iranian President Ahmadinehjad is allowed to speak his mind at Columbia University. Once again, America’s right to free speech hastens the demise of another numb-nuts idiot who shoots himself in the foot and then puts it in his mouth.

Two Silicon Valley computer engineers have been caught and charged with conspiring to sell microchip designs to the Chinese military. One billion people who ace math class, and they need our engineers?

• The Very Worst •

Rudy Giuliani has changed his position on gun control now that he’s running for the White House (by the way — can it still wear white if it’s been screwed?). Rudy practically apologized for his previous stance in a presentation to the NRA, interrupting himself momentarily to take a cell phone call from his wife. We’re not taking a position on firearms here. We’re just saying, you know, stick to your guns.

Phil Spector’s trial ended in a mistrial. What part of crazed-gun-toting-psycho-woman-hating-murderer did this jury not get?

Myanmar’s crackdown on anti-government protestors has led to the death of at least nine people as of Thursday, including monks, civilians, and a Japanese photographer (though the the government is still about 2,091 murders short of the number they killed in 1988). A crackdown. On monks. It’s not just us — that’s fucked up, right?