Coco to Gogo

NBC says it has reached a deal with ''Tonight'' host Conan O'Brien for his exit from the show, allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years. The deal is worth a reported $44 million.

Network spokeswoman Allison Gollust confirmed the deal early Thursday but did not offer any other details. Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that O'Brien will get $32 million and that the network agreed to pay his staff $12 million in severance.

The announcement comes seven whole months after O'Brien took the desk from Leno.

It's awesome that he stuck up for his crew. But the big payday is a paltry amount when you consider he was probably going to be worth a couple billion. Letterman earns $ 31 million - per year. Don't know if that includes his crew. Seems unlikely. They apparently need to sleep with Dave to see some of that cash.

So they're only paying Conan a tiny sum to walk away. If you consider that Conan could have probably averaged about 10 years on the Tonight Show (assuming a lot of factors, but we're just talking here) Conan would have been worth 310 million in a decade, and that's assuming he would have earned as much as Letterman in 2007 dollars.

Conan got hosed. Twice now.

The Trouble with DSL

So, you might have noticed I haven't been around as much as I usually am.

But Cap! Where are you with the Senatorial race in Massachusetts? Conan has officially left the Tonight Show! There's a sale at Penney's!

Yes, yes, I know all that. And thanks for being concerned about my opinion on such things.

The reality of it is, my at&t DSL has been and continues to be out.

This is a major deal to me.

I'm at the point now that I'm sending communicays from the local library. Yes, it's just that bad. Until yesterday I didn't have phone service either.

You really oughta' pay those bills, Cap. Yeah, and you really oughta' click more ads on Blasphemes so that I can get some cash. In fact, I think I'm up to 30 cents from Google since management put those ad panels up in the first place. The best part is, I have to split that .30 with OneF and Killre. So now I'm down 20 cents from where I was a year ago.

But it isn't the bill. It's something else. There's buck passing on it. I can't get a clear answer of what's up. But here I am. Upset, and sharing. Well, at least that's normal.

So if you're looking for my take on MA or Conan... you'll have to be patient.

Meantime, think it's time for me to look into another service provider. I hear cable modems are nice, but Comcast sucks more than at&t. Anyone care to comment on that one?

Gun Owners

We Fight God With God

Uh, are you sure you've got the wording right on that? We fight God... (terrible) with more God... (you just made it worse)

It's akin to saying we fight earthquakes with hurricanes. That doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to me.

Another thought is that the Salvation Army only wants to give credit to the Big Guy for the good stuff. Pretty good gig he's got there.

I looked into it, and the Red Cross is not a secular organization. Neither is Doctors without Borders. I happen to like those two organizations.

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