Uplifting News

My last blog's purpose was evidently to bash NBC and take shots at Jay Leno for the screwjob pulled on Conan O'Brien. However on Conan's finale of The Tonight Show he thanked his fans for their loyalty and support, but condemned anyone who let cynicism control them. Conan stated that the worst trait he finds in people is cynics. I wanted a definition so I didn't have to sacrifice my integrity and sense of humor for this, and found cynical to mean: "distrusting or disparaging the motives of others." So this blog, as was Conan's last show, will be all about what I think is fun and/or good natured.

In one news story I'd like to share, according to Digital Trends, the 2 million dollar lawsuit against music pirate martyr Jammie Thomas-Rasset was trimmed drastically by a judge on Friday. The judge called the two million dollar penalty for the downloading of twenty-four songs, "Monsterous and shocking"! Way to go Judge! While the judge probably couldn't get the suit filed by the RIAA against Thomas-Rassett dropped completely, he did knock the total down to $54,000. It still seems needlessly high to me, and likely to the rest of the world based off of how many people get away with pirating free music. Even the RIAA has stated it's given up the crusade of hunting down internet pirates and publicly executing them, instead opting to plead a deal with Internet Service Providers to crack down on the worst offenders. We've still got a long way to go before people are either fairly tried for this offense, or the offense is deemed virtually impossible, but at least the judge had some sympathy on Thomas-Rassett.


And in the same vein that Conan included in his shows for the past week, here are a few of the leading organizations helping the earthquake devastated Haiti, who were recently re-devastated by an aftershock the size of some of California's worsts.

Red Cross

Hope For Haiti

Stiller Strong


Just for fun, because it was something I stumbled upon and thought it was very well crafted, here's an A Capella version of The Killers' hit, "Mr. Brightside".




And if that wasn't enough, I'll close out with an amazing clip, and a thank you to Conan for the seven months of great entertainment. This clip may have been from his last show, of which I hadn't latched onto as a fan when it was airing, but I found this to be the funniest thing Conan's probably ever done. And by Conan I mean Jim Carrey as Conan.