I watched Jeopardy! tonight to check in on this Ken Jennings fellow.

Wow, what a cocky sonofabitch.

Well, no, not really. He seems like a nice young rich guy. But I swear that at one point during Double Jeopardy! he didn't know the answer, but because he had $17,000 to the second-place woman's $1,800, he buzzed in and took a guess. Later during that round, the clue asked, essentially, who the current president of Ford Motor Company is. Ken buzzed in and answered, "Who is Ford?" Alex Trebek asked him to be more specific, and Ken replied, "I was afraid you'd say that."

By the end of the round, Ken had something like $24,000 to the second-place woman's $1,000. The tall guy in third was $4,000 in the hole and didn't get to Final Jeopardy, the second time that's happened in the two shows I've watched during Ken's run. I think the first one I saw was win No. 8 or something like that.

Someone over at Sony Pictures Television has to be going, "OK, who had the brilliant idea to lift the 'five-time champion' rule?" This guy already has $750,000 and you know the producers are weighing the cost of keeping him around for the publicity it's bringing the show. (Not that they're fixing it a la Quiz Show or anything, but I doubt they're trying to hard scouring the contestant pool for a brainiac capable of taking Ken down.)

I'm just saying.