i find your lack of pulse disturbing

It's old news now, as it apparently happened back in July 2010, but is anyone else mildly alarmed at the news that former US Vice-President and cartoonish supervillain Dick Cheney has taken advantage of being off most people's radar to get himself bionically transformed into DARTH FRICKIN' VADER???

He's more machine than man now, twisted and evil.

Basically Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, has been fitted with a device to assist the pumping of the blood round the body, one of the side effects of which is that he will henceforth HAVE NO PULSE!! How creepy is that?

Not content with joining the ranks of the undead, I now expect Cheney to have his left arm replaced with a chainsaw, like that guy in the Evil Dead films, or possibly be plumbed into an armoured chair like Davros, in which case we'll all be OK as we can just go upstairs and hide.