A long, long time ago, I used to stay awake after midnight to listen to Larry King on AM radio. I could only get the signal at night -- during the day it was washed out by local radio chatter, but those local stations signed off after midnight, allowing me to pick up stations from New York. There was Larry King, doing his radio talk show, being cold and insulting to his callers and cutting them off if they said anything he didn't like. But it was something to listen to in a dead world. After a couple of years, Larry got a job with the cable news network CNN and became a television celebrity. That was the end of his late night radio talk show. I'd watch him sometimes on CNN -- that was before it went full-communist. There were still some actual journalists working for CNN in those days. Larry did a good job. He kept his facts straight, he remembered that he was going to ask questions later, and he allowed his guests to make their points. Larry was never a big factor in my television viewing, but I still have some fondness for him because of those long nights when I would lie in bed in the total darkness listening to the whisper of his voice on my transistor radio, which was close to my ear to avoid waking up others in the house. Rest in peace, Larry.