Fresh from his victory over dinosaur-hating Sarah Palin, Matt Damon has issued two new challenges: one to be settled with words, the other with close-quarters combat.

The actor gave an interview to the Miami Herald ostensibly to promote a long-running PBS series about the environment that he narrates (who knew?), but which actually served as a platform for Damon to launch a new host of feuds. After calling deposed New York Times columnist William Kristol an "idiot," Big Hollywood mastermind Andrew Breitbart scrambled in to offer $100,000 to Damon should he debate Kristol in a public forum, which is certainly the best possible use for a spare hundred grand in today's economic climate. Then, Damon went after 007 himself:

''They could never make a James Bond movie like any of the Bourne films,'' Damon says scornfully. "Because Bond is an imperialist, misogynist sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people. He's repulsive.

"Steve [Soderbergh, who produced yet another of Damon's spy movies, Syriana] told me that years ago he was offered a Bond movie. He told them he'd do it if they gave him creative control. Absolutely not, they said. They have a formula, they stick to it, and it makes them a lot of money. They know what they're doing, and they're going to keep doing it.''

To be fair, the Bond producers did experiment with adding children and extra fingers to the series, though neither note panned out. Perhaps if they introduced a Palin-pushing columnist as Bond's archnemesis—"K," shall we say?—Damon would finally be willing to overlook Bond's caddish ways.