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"You Don't Know Dick": A very quick fun fact about Dick Cheney to help you decide what to get him for Christmas... He wants a silver deathbox. And I can't believe I'm half-defending Cheney, but, in all fairness, he didn't actually say, "Damn, I need one of those"... He said he thought it. That's a fairly significant difference.

"Indecision v. 2.008: Food Edition": Presidential candidates have been using teh interwebz to share their stories from the campaign trail. I'm not gonna lie, this segment made me really, really hungry. Although, that bit about John Edwards and his wife celebrating their 30th anniversary at a Wendy's left me more confused than peckish. Yeah, you're a normal all-American guy, Edwards, we get it. A normal all-American millionaire Senator guy.

Jimmy Kimmel has taken his Matt Damon joke to the next level, by actually placing a full-page advertisement in Variety congratulating Damon on his star on Hollywood Boulevard. Kimmel has an on-going joke on his show where he pretends that he ran out of time and had to bump Matt Damon from the schedule-- he frequently apologizes to Damon at the end of his show. Damon even played along when he appeared on Kimmel last year, pretending to be annoyed at always getting bumped.

The ad says: "Congratulations on the star and sorry we ran out of time. We'll try to squeeze you in soon." And, at the bottom, it says, "This ad cost me $8,512". That's an expensive joke. Do you think he can write it off as a business expense?

Would you cast Gary Sinise as Dr. Leonard McCoy in the next Star Trek film? Or, how about Mike Myers as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott? Well, Chris Beaumont would. In fact, he'd recast a number of famous faces to play the legendary U.S.S. Enterprise crew in the next Trek movie.

In his Casting Stones column on Blogcritics.org, Chris admits he got this idea to recast the Trek movie when it was rumored that director J.J. Abrams wanted to cast actor Matt Damon in the role of Captain James T. Kirk for the new Star Trek film he was putting together. From there, Beaumont put together a list of stars to take the places of the other members of the crew. Most of his suggestions are right on they money. For instance, CSI:NY's Gary Sinise could be a dead ringer for Bones McCoy with a change in hair color. His choice of Billy Zane as Commander Spock would work as well, as Zane does have a similar look to Spock in some of the earlier episodes.

However, some of his choices are a bit off. For the role of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Baumont picks Mike Myers. Now, Myers could handle the accent well, but it would probably remind the viewers of his role of Fat Bastard in the Austin Powers movie series.  I could hear him saying 'Captain, I canna give you any more power because I've got a crap on deck that could choke a donkey!.'  Another questionable choice is Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz as Ensign Pavel Chekov. I'm not too sure about this one. Actually, with plenty of copious makeup, I think Myers would make a better Chekov.