Good News, Please

Home from work.  What’s new in the world today?

Here is CNN’s latest news listed in order as of 7:45pm December 28, 2010: “Ski lift malfunction injures 9 in Maine,” “Skiiers describe moment of fall,” “Flyer charged after bag ignites,” “8 killed in fire in New Orleans,” “5 teens dead in Florida motel room,” “College baseball star charged with rape,” “Man says wife died in sex accident,” (as curious as I was, I thought I would be happier overall in life not reading this article) “Body of burned child found in Texas,” “Boy, 12, vanishes on Christmas Eve.”  Finally the tenth article listed isn’t even an article: “Vote now for 2010’s most intriguing.”  It’s even bad news for Sarah Palin according to the eleventh article!

Man, the world must really be a terrible place.  Although, human nature hasn’t changed in thousands of years, so these things, or things like them have surely been happening all along.  But this is what CNN tells us is most important to know about the world today.  CNN is simply driven by market pressures though.  They give us what we want to read, which means it isn’t the CNN folks who are the sick freaks—we’re the sick freaks who secretly love reading about how terrible the world is!

Refreshingly, there are some good-news-only websites such as HappyNews.com.  There I learned about a Sign-language Santa down in Texas who gives learning-disabled kids a chance to have the mall-Santa experience.  Goodwill was helping unemployed people find jobs, and firefighters handed out free toys to kids in drug-war-ravaged Mexico City.  I even found this cool picture on another good news site

This will do for tonight, but I’m sure I’ll be back to CNN again tomorrow.  That’s where all the sick freaks go.