VBVW for November 30: God Help Us

• The Very Best •

Now that Google has mastered the digital domain, it’s going to work on the real world. The company announced its “RE < C" initiative to seek renewable energy sources (RE) that cost less than (<) coal (C). That must mean that "Google>God.”

Nothing in California is burning this week.

Broadway is back in business as stagehands ended their three-week strike. Who would have guessed that a bunch of manly men could bring the fabulous sound of show tunes to a screaming halt?

• The Very Worst •

Richard Roberts resigned as president of Oral Roberts University because God told him to. Roberts was going to stay and fight charges that he looted the university for personal gain, but announced that God told him it would be better to step down. God also said, and we quote, “We live in a litigious society.” We’re waiting for God to tell Roberts to stop being an asshole and admit to stealing the cash.

Riots in Paris have resulted in injury to more than 80 police officers. The rioters, many of them teenagers, have been attacking police since the death of two teens who were killed when they rammed their motorcycle into a police car. And Bill Maher keeps telling us that we can learn from the French.

Sixty miners are trapped underground in a gold mine explosion in Ecuador. The recent spate of mine disasters worldwide–occurring almost weekly–may create a whole race of miners that simply live out the rest of their lives trapped below the surface of the Earth to live as Mole Men . . . waiting for the day they can crawl back to the surface and take back what is rightfully theirs. Or not.