VBVW for May 30, 2008: Flush ‘Em All

• The Very Best

Nepal has become a new country, its political parties having voted to abolish a 239-year-old Hindu monarchy. King Gyanendra has been ordered to vacate his palace and send everyone new hats.

An Ontario, Canada high school junior got tired of seeing the plastic garbage bags in his house pile up, so he developed a microbe combination that would cut the decomposition time of plastic bags in landfills from 1000 years to three months. Sixteen-year-old Daniel Burd may have overcome an environmental hurdle that the EPA, the World Heath Organization, Greenpeace, DuPont, and Monsanto could not.

Former presidential press secretary Scott McClellan wrote What Happened, an exposé of the Bush White House that shows an entire administration out of touch with reality. The book hit #1 on Amazon.com, which means there are people in America who think McClellan’s disclosures are news.

• The Very Worst

There is only one toilet in space and it’s out of order.

25,000 policemen are currently deployed to fight a burgeoning drug trade in the Mexican region of Sinaloa. Seven police officers were gunned down on Tuesday, the latest casualties of a bloody drug war. Buzz kill….

Sharon Stone angered the entirety of China by saying the recent earthquake that claimed over 68,000 lives was “bad karma” for the country’s past policies in Tibet. It had been almost two weeks since Sharon Stone said something stupid.