VBVW for May 16, 2008: Weather Or Not

• The Very Best

The California Supreme Court ruled that a ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. While that’s a big leap forward, we’re mostly amazed that any work at all has been getting done in any state government since the presidential primary season began.

Lori Drew, the mom who tormented a neighbor girl to the point of suicide, has been indicted and faces 20 years in prison. Thirteen year old Megan Meier killed herself in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages from Drew, who was posing as an online friend. Contrary to conventional wisdom, in MySpace someone can hear you scream.

Federal prosecutors have charged Barry Bonds with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury about his steroid use. Can we just throw this guy in the slammer, strip him out of the record books, and be done with him already?

• The Very Worst

More than two dozen people were killed by tornadoes in the United States in the deadliest storm season on record. If this keeps up, Toto and Dorothy will be using the yellow brick road as a route to the morgue.

China’s Sichuan province was rocked by a 7.9 earthquake. Some 50,000 are feared dead, which is really pretty grim for a country hoping to be all happy and smiley when the Olympics arrive this summer.

Representing a new low in getting high, two men near Houston confessed that they dug up a grave, removed a head from a body, and used the skull as a bong. What the hell ever happened to raiding the fridge and watching cartoons?