A scenario such as the below would resolve the question of whether or not to show images of the blowed-up Hussein brothers for the purpose of assuring the doubt-prone Iraqi and Arab masses of their demise. But alas, in the real world, I fear only the gory details will do …

The Dixie Chicks have made a clever political move, buying, I mean supporting their own section of the Rock the Vote site and starting a registration and education campaign called “Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote!” (of course the Chicks don’t exactly “rock,” but “Chicks Pop, Chicks Vote!” doesn’t have the same …

History’s most famous stoners reunite after 20 years in the straight desert: The comedy duo is reuniting after 20 years for a new feature set up at New Line Cinema that will catch up with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s wacky stoner personas in the present day. The untitled project …

This is a strange story: the Chicago police issued a community alert describing a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as looking like Ice Cube. I guess if he does he does, but then a local TV station relayed the alert over the air and played an Ice …

James Brown, 70, separates from 30-something wife Tomi Rea Brown. They have a two-year-old: “Godfather of Soul” James Brown has announced his breakup from his wife, Tomi Rea Brown, with a full-page ad in the show-business trade newspaper Variety. In the July 21-27 weekly edition of the paper, the ad …

FCC chairman Michael Powell defends the controvertial media ownership ruling even as the House prepared to block it: “We are confident in our decision” FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a written statement. “We created enforceable rules that reflect the realities of today’s media marketplace. The rules will benefit Americans …

Useful summary of the FCC-Capitol Hill conflagration over media ownership rule changes by Eric Boehlert in Salon: Following the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial decision on June 2 to ease media ownership limits, supporters in Congress were so sure they had momentum on their side that Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., announced …

Online music poobah par excellence Brad Hill, author of The Digial Songstream, reviews the new BuyMusic.com service: REVIEW: BuyMusic.com Online music store operated by Buy.com SUMMARY: The first of many iTunes Store clones for Windows, BuyMusic is rough, clumsy, and disregards all competition except iTunes. Compares unfavorably to pre-iTunes services …

Are Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the only schools around with a modicum of nads? These other schools seem to be falling all over themselves to kiss RIAA sphincter. BC and MIT, on the other hand, tell the RIAA to piss off: The schools said the subpoenas, …

BuyMusic.com, which opens with a seductive female voice purring “get loaded,” offers PC owners digital pay music service: Although online retailer BuyMusic.com will offer more than 300,000 songs from the five major recording labels, users of the service will not necessarily have the freedom afforded customers of Apple’s iTunes service. …