Does Dick Cheney have Mad Cow Disease?

Dick Cheney once again is saying that he thinks Obama is making the country less safe from terrorists.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney

In reference to the way the Bush administration interrogated detainees, which greatly increased anti-American sentiment not only in the Muslim world but in Europe, Cheney says,

“I think that’s a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles,” he said.

Yeah, and wiretaps without warrants were a swell idea too. Does this guy have any credibility at all? I think Cheney isn’t all there. Maybe his decades of heart trouble, and all of those times I assume he’s been on a heart-lung machine during surgery, have left his brain oxygen deprived.

Feeling Rand-y

I’ve had my fun knocking the silly pseudo-philosophy of romance novelist Ayn Rand, and last night Stephen Colbert spent six minutes taking on the Rand Illusion.

Legendary comic book artist Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and creator of Dr. Strange, has been a follower of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism for over forty years. This drawing is from a story he drew last year. The woman bears an unmistakable resemblance to Ayn Rand, which is ironic because the character is a villain.

(c) 2008 Steve Ditko

Larissa returns to Jeopardy!

On Wednesday, the Tournament of Champions will start on Jeopardy!, featuring the charming Larissa Kelly, the winning-est woman in the history of the game show. After my last items about Larissa, her hit count on this blog dropped. Apparently, everybody had been looking for the air dates for the Tournament of Champions.

Whatever happened in the tournament, however things went for Larissa, it happened two months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Here’s hoping she did great. I will, of course, capture some video of her to post here.