Quote of the day: The crazy-ish guy in my subway car was concerned about Mary Cheney's baby

"Who's the father of Mary Cheney's baby? Does anybody know? It's probably Condoleezza Rice."
--a guy on the uptown No. 1 subway train last night, talking to no one in particular, or possibly everyone

You're probably going to say, "Oh, you just made that up." (Hey, do I criticize your work?) Well, it actually happened, about 9:53pm in the last car of the Broadway local heading from 50th Streeet to 59th Street. You find someone else who was there, they'll tell you.

(By the way, is it my imagination, or are we just not getting as many subway crazies as we used to? I'm thinking maybe they've all gotten cell phones--which mostly don't work in the subways anyway.)


COMING UP TODAY ON DOWNWITHTYRANNY:

It's a big day over in the DWT TV Transcription Unit, which has already spit out all the following and passed it on to the Encrypted Scrawl Deciphering Desk in preparation for keyboarding of the barely legible scribbling:

• The top breaking news: A "second chance" for Miss USA

We've got both TV's Craig Ferguson and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on the job.

• In other news: The scandal of the ungrateful Iraqis

In a Daily Show exposé ("THEY-A-CULPA"), Jon Stewart and John Oliver lay the blame for the mess in Iraq where it properly belongs: on the Iraqis.