Cirque Du Soleil founder and "I'm so rich I could go to space" mega-billionaire Guy Laliberté has—fittingly—taken off from Kazakhstan on his way to the International Space Station. Now that he's entered orbit, he's officially become the latest in a slowly increasing list of space tourists. Unlike other space tourists, though, Laliberté isn't just going for pleasure. He's bundling his trip into a broader program of environmental and anti-poverty activism.

Here's where things get a little bit dicey for us. Laliberté seems really sincere and the organization he's promoting, the One Drop Foundation that he founded, literally does the Lord's work getting water to people who don't have it. But we can see how the particular way he's chosen to highlight his cause might engender, in a certain kind of person, a potential... snideness:]]> Omri 2009-10-05T15:59:31-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/6/5/223429/3175

It's been awhile since we've contemplated the whereabouts of Jim Carrey, but apparently the actor is following in the footsteps of Sheryl Crow and Mr. Rogers (not to mention Mr. Smith!) and going to Washington.

Specifically, he and girlfriend Jenny McCarthy marched on behalf of Green Our Vaccines, a nonprofit dedicated to funding studies of vaccinations.

McCarthy has been crusading for medicine to investigate the side effects of ingredients in certain shots since her son was diagnosed with autism. We don't know who put the what in the where now, but Jaunted fully supports performing studies to benefit kids--and celebs using giant megaphones to promote something besides "Horton Hears a Who."

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