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Still angry they gave that frakin' Apollo a new gig

So i bumped into this interview with Dirk Benedict in National Review Online, skimming through it, a lot about his individuality and how he doesn't need hollywood.  Stuff like this:

Benedict wants little to do with Hollywood anymore. Since leaving television, he has written two books and raised two sons as a single father.

and this:

Not being able to shy away from such politically incorrect opinions also might have had something to do with his decision to abandon Hollywood for Montana. And Benedict protests that he never had the pathological hunger for fame that characterizes Hollywood’s biggest stars.

“George Roy Hill [the legendary director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid] said to me once, ‘You’ll never be a star,’ ” Benedict recalls. “He started inviting me to his house — which was really Paul Newman’s house, he was renting — and he said to me, ‘You’ll never be a star, and the reason is that you don’t have to have it.’ ”  

Seems like quite a maverick eh?  Then I get to this:

During his recent appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, a wildly popular reality-TV show in the U.K....

Celebrity Big Brother!  In the UK?  If that doesn't scream "somebody please notice me again" I don't know what does.  Sorry dude, all that Montana frontier conservative to-hell-with-what-they-think facade just flushed down the toilet.  I think someone is just cranky that he didn't get a job on new & improved BSG.

New SUPER DUPER SECRET evidence that climate change isn't real

Prominent right wing columnist Fred Barnes claims the case for man made warming is "falling apart" and gets a call from Talking Points Memo:

TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Barnes; We hadn't heard anything lately about the case for man-made global warming falling apart. In fact, just the opposite. So we called Barnes and asked him what he was referring to.

At first, he cited the fact that it's been cold lately.

Perhaps sensing this was less than convincing, Barnes then asserted that there had been a "cooling spell" in recent years. "Haven't you noticed?" he asked.

Asked for firmer evidence of such cooling, Barnes demurred, telling TPMmuckraker he was too busy to track it down.

We pressed Barnes again: surely he could tell us where he had found this vital new information, which could upend the current debate over how to address global warming.

In response, Barnes said only that he knew where he had found it, but would not tell us, apparently as a matter of principle. "I'm not going to do your research for you," he eventually said, before hurriedly ending the call.

My emphasis.  These guys crack me up.