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Harry Shearer, now co-starring in Christopher Guest’s A Mighty Wind, as always The Simpsons, and his radio show, Le Show, has a strategy for the RIAA: Here’s a business model with a future: sue your customers. That’s what, as of this month, the recorded-music industry has been doing. It filed …

The Chipstah (!) has exclusive coverage of France’s breathtaking victory in IronyFest2003: Their lead never was in doubt, but their documented support for Iraq with intelligence on US plans and helping Saddam crush dissenters that was revealed yesterday while simultaneously claiming to stand for fairness and the rule of international …

The arguments now against the war in Iraq – coming from the rather awkward position of resounding victory and liberation in just three weeks – are that our motives were “wrong” (just not pure enough for a worldview that values ideology above all else), and that this dangerous “preemptive” war …

Just seven more non-shopping days 'til Free Comic Book Day!

Octagenarian Mississippian T-Model Ford plays ragged, raunchy, wild and wooly juke joint blues that makes the North Mississippi Allstars sound like Kelly Clarkson. Like fellow members of the recurring Juke Joint Caravan Tour (Paul Jones and Robert Belfour) of Fat Possum artists, Ford beats his fuzzy electric guitar with vicious …

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein is deeply concerned with proposed further media deregulation, and well he should be: FCC Chairman Michael Powell has vowed to overhaul these rules by June 2. A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators recently asked him to hold off on any changes until the FCC discloses …

Phillip Winn just related an article about the French rethinking their anti-war position in light of dancing Iraqis kissing pictures of George Bush and doing the shoe-whack on effigies of Saddam. I’ve held out hope for the Frenchies all along, largely because they have such fine women, food and wine. …

What is the first rule of show biz? Protect your face – maybe that’s why they call him Thicke: “Growing Pains” TV dad Alan Thicke received 30 stitches and lost five teeth after he was struck by a puck while practicing for a celebrity fund-raising hockey game, his spokesman said …

Our estimable cornfed pal David Hogberg (and prize winning poker player) points to yet another anti-war contest winner – this one is a gambler: Binion’s Horseshoe World Series of Poker Pot-limit Hold’em $1,500 buy-in 212 Entrants $295,740 Prize Pool “It was a roller-coaster,” was how Prahlad Friedman described the sixth …

We were just talking about the Gulf War 1 film Three Kings, and its applications to the current war in Iraq. Some American soldiers may have been a little too influenced by the film’s plot: U.S. forces have recovered more than $600 million from hiding places near Saddam Hussein’s palace …