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Apparently our long national nightmare will be over soon.

No, I’m not talking about the health care debate or the war on terror.

I’m talking about the thing that that everyone has been talking about – the Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien clash on NBC.

Everyone has been feeling sorry for Conan and making Jay the villain, which is party understandable. Poor Conan is getting moved out of his dream job after just seven months.

But he was getting beat in the ratings by David Letterman. If he had been topping the gap-toothed one, NBC probably would have kept him where he was – and told Leno to take a hike.

Reason No. 2 not to feel too sorry for Conan is what he is getting to walk away: $40 million. That’s a lot of cabbage.

So it looks like Leno takes back the Tonight Show, and Conan sits out for a while and re-emerges on Fox.

Then those two and Letterman will be duking it out at 10:35 p.m. Talk about a Confluence of Comedy.

Now maybe we can go back to worrying about something more important, serious and meaningful. I hereby nominate the following topic:

“Is Tiger Woods a sex addict who needs rehab?”

Talk amongst yourselves.