I would just like to express my sincere appreciation for the pic.

According to the complaint, Stein and Kyocera had not officially signed a contract, but had still worked out all aspects of the $300,000 deal—leaving only the question of “what kind of tea and other snacks Ben Stein would have on the set”—

So he’s suing them for breach of an unsigned contract? I hope it works out the way it seems like it’s going to work out.

Kyocera can always say that its opinion on Stein has evolved.

Ben Stein was in a nearby car when I stopped for gas at the local station last year.  He gave me simpering smile.  One of the great regrets of my life is that I didn’t go over, smile back, and when he lowered the window, say, “Shame on you and shanda fer der goyyim, with your creationist bullshit, you simpering idiot.”  Next time!

I would just like to express my sincere appreciation for the pic.

Ditto!!

Adding insult to injury, Stein then discovered that Kyocera had—“in an astonishingly brazen misappropriation”—simply replaced him with another glasses-wearing guy in a tie and sport jacket, one who presumably doesn’t believe that God decides when you’ll need to take a sweater, thus robbing Ben Stein of the comedic persona that he had worked so hard to develop accidentally. This added “emotional distress” to Stein’s many claims…

Good luck establishing that legal precedent, Ben: “After that company fired me, they hired someone else to replace me! What an emotionally distressing thing to do! I’m suing them for emotional distress!”

Criminy. Just do what every other rich conservative whiner does to make himself feel better, Ben: Dump one of your big sacks of money out onto your bed and roll around in it.

Tom and G, you’d be sending me Edible Arrangements® bouquets if I hadn’t cropped it.