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There is a hole in the world tonight; Don Knotts has left us. I can't think of anyone who ever had anything bad to say about him in public, and it seems that he has been around forever. Barney Fife and Ralph Furley will be remembered for a long time. There was a fabulous chemistry between Knotts and John Ritter when Furley was trying to teach Tripper about women (Jack was not really gay and Furley could not get laid with a gun to his head), that I have always thought was a high point of TV comedy. One of Knotts' interesting efforts was The Shakiest Gun in the West, where he took a character first done by Bob Hope in Pale Face and made it his own. This is rambling, and everyone will have memories of Don Knotts, but these are some of mine. He will be sorely missed as a man and as an actor.

At least 200 people in Iraq have been killed by other Iraqis or foreign insurgents since the Golden Mosque was destroyed Wed. That many people killed in four days in domestic violence in a country must be a sign of a society gone totally to Hell, and no one anywhere else took to the streets to protest the killing the way they did when the Mohammed cartoons came public.

The Winter Olympics are over. The human drama of who screwed up and who was feuding with who may end up overshadowing the athletic records. Maybe one of the problems with the whole show was that the competitors were all professionals who had another competition to go to if they hashed their olympic program; losing was not that important. Avery Brundage must be spinning in his grave. I thought it was interesting that Bob Costas admitted in TV Guide that he really know very little about olympic sports. I always suspected that. He was kept at a desk in NY.

Pindar wrote an ode dedicated to a champion boxer, who was short and ugly and fought dirty.

I have finished watching a rented DVD of Lord of War. Nick Cage plays a free lance arms dealer who sells guns all over the world. Interesting but slow moving and heavy handed movie. Some great quotable dialogue and several powerful scenes, but just not quite as good as it could be.

Interesting that Blogger is now running a list of each blog as it is published. One blog after the other continually. A way to learn how many bloggers there actually are in the world as they come online one after the other.

This is going to be all for right now. Di di mau!