VBVW for September 26, 2008: Setting Bail

• The Very Best

The FBI is investigating the possibility that the current financial crisis was caused by criminal behavior at institutions like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers. It’s about time the feds started using the word “jail” instead of “bail” in this mess.

The Chinese launched their third successful manned spaceflight, making the country a serious competitor to Russia and the U.S. in future space endeavors. Hope the astronauts are drinking Tang and not milk.

Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters using data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The bizarre movement may be caused by the gravitational pull of some matter that lies beyond the observable universe. Either that or they’re seeing an old episode of Star Trek.

• The Very Worst

More than 50,000 children have been sickened–and 13,000 of them hospitalized–due to tainted milk products in China. This is one of those times where it’s okay that the Communist government believes in executing corporate miscreants.

In the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, the federal government took over Washington Mutual and sold its corpse to JP Morgan for parts.

Eleven people, including the gunman, were killed in a college shooting in Finland. No, not the United States. Finland. Who knew they even had guns?