VBVW for November 23: Thanks For Giving

Our abbreviated, holiday VBVW. Thanks to you all for reading.

• The Very Best •

Queen guitarist Brian May was appointed the new chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May was named to the post after recently receiving his Ph.D in astrophysics after writing a doctoral thesis entitled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.” This, of course, is a direct continuation of his other scientific writings, including “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Tie Your Mother Down.”

• The Very Worst •

Saudi Arabian courts have sentenced a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes and six months in jail–and disbarred her lawyer for trying to appeal her case. The woman, who was attacked while talking to a man in his car, is guilty of the crime of being in the presence of a man to whom she is not related. For those of you keeping track, Saudi Arabia is a key U.S. “ally” and we’ve gone to war to protect its interests, which apparently don’t include women.