I love Willie: great songwriter, great singer, great eccentric personality, still a loose canon at 70 freaking years of age. But none of that means he knows dick about politics, in fact as we have discussed in great detail, length and variety in the past, perhaps all of those good …

I was thinking about Dolly Parton and gradually it dawned on me how much she has in common with Martha Stewart. Why does this combo seem so absurd? Please see the story on MSNBC.com: Their styles couldn’t be more different, and their stars are currently hurtling in opposite directions. Still, …

It’s not “yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me” – vicious Godsmack-backed trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl film here. Formats: Real, Windows, QuickTime. Rockin’ – the movie is out July 9.

Amazon.com senior vice president Diego Piacentini said: The online retailer said it sees future opportunities in digital music download offerings, similar to Apple Computer Inc’s AAPL.O online music service, iTunes, which lets users download some songs from major record labels for less than $1. “You should definitely expect Amazon to …

I have said all along that online music sales has to be a low-price, high-volume operation in order to cut into free P2P, which clearly has disadvantages of spyware, ads, unreliable files and labeling, and less than 100% good karma. I think the price range for unrestricted MP3s should be …

This strikes me as overkill, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless: Pop singer Rachel Farris has done her share of club gigs, radio station appearances and guest spots on tours for better-known acts, but she’s far from a household name. ….On Friday, the nation’s largest movie theater chain and two …

In case you have missed it, or avoided it like the plague, there is a lengthy discussion regarding gays and society still going on in this post. In a related matter, the conscience of the nation, Wal-Mart, has apparently seen the legal writing on the wall and decided to include …

Properly, trust is a two-way street – this isn’t that: Your next personal computer may well come with its own digital chaperon. ….Silicon Valley – led by Microsoft and Intel – calls the concept “trusted computing.” The companies, joined by I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices and others, argue that the …

Gisele vs. Milla: Gisele wins the modeling war, although $7.5 million for the year is mighty fine loser’s compensation for Milla. Forbes dismisses Milla’s acting and singing talents. I don’t know much about the acting, but I liked her first solo album with “Gentlemen Who Fell” quite a bit. Amazon …

I find this hilarious, combining about five different stereotypes – I love the image of hordes of Japanese girls snapping away on “backwards” magazines, sending the pics out to their digital buddies. And as always, the assumption by content owners is that information shared is a sale lost. It’s a …