VBVW for November 14, 2008: The Reich Stuff

• The Very Best

For the first time, four planets have been identified outside our solar system using actual digital images. At least now we know there’s a place to go when we’ve finished screwing up this world.

Finland rated the DVD release of family-friendly TV series “Little House on the Prairie” suitable for adult viewing only. Universal Pictures decided it didn’t want to pay the per-minute fee that Finnish authorities charge for rating DVDs, so now it can only sell “Little House” with a sticker saying “banned for under-18s.” We think in all fairness that it should be banned for all age groups.

German officials are charging John Demjanjuk, 88, with the murder of 29,000 Jews at a Nazi camp in Poland. Never too late to try one of those concentration camp guards.

• The Very Worst

Speaking of the über race, Republican congressman Paul Broun of Georgia has compared Obama’s plan for a civilian force to “exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany.” It’s amazing that Broun was able to spot the similarities between Obama and Hitler that the rest of the world missed.

Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks who showed up at the same time at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion. Amid all the punching and subsequent arrests, no one thought to ask “What would Jesus do?”

Steven Lipski, a city councilman from New Jersey, was arrested for urinating off the balcony of a Washington nightclub — and onto the heads of fellow concertgoers below. In Lipski’s defense, the show featured a Grateful Dead cover band so there was already crap coming off the stage.