Former Countdown host Keith Olbermann followed his speech at Tuesday’s “An Evening with Keith Olbermann” with a 42-minute Q&A session at Cornelll University’s Bailey Hall. That’s a long time to watch, so we’ve run down some highlights, including a predictable duality in the way he treated one eloquent conservative questioner, versus a nervously verbose member of his liberal choir. That miniature study of human nature, and the rest of the highlights, coming up on Tick-off™.

In the run-up to Memorial Day this year, conservatives expressed varying degrees of selective outrage that President Obama would “not honor our troops,” sending Vice President Joe Biden to Arlington National Cemetery. Of course, the President was scheduled to attend a ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Illinois, but I guess those soldiers are somehow less worthy in conservatives’ eyes. It was only a matter of time before someone suggested that the thunderstorm that shortened the President’s speech was the will of almighty God. Enter Matt Drudge.

The creative forces behind the hit television show Lost began to unveil their promotional campaign this week, starting with a stunning image of the show’s cast shot in the style of the Last Supper. You know the one, Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century depiction of Jesus announcing that one of his 12 disciples would betray him? If this looks familiar to you (at least in a pop culture sense), its because you’ve probably seen this idea before. A bunch of times:

You may already know that Stargate Universe is coming to the SyFy network — and it’s promising to bring back the starships, bigtime. Darker, edgier, bloodier – SyFy is clearly applying the lessons of Battlestar to the Stargate formula. Just in time.

Like vampire or zombie bites, geekdom is infectious. But this year it really seems like something has changed. Everyone seems to be talking about Comic-Con. With an entertainment industry that is interested in sequels, franchises and the already-proven value of any new investment in an entertainment property, Comic-Con has become the center of both the entertainment-industrial complex as well as the countless fan-universes that each franchise has created.