MICHAEL CROFT WRITES:

Why do I bother trying to write satire when it’s indistinguishable from actual events? Tom Lehrer retired from performing music because “Political satire became obsolete when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” I know how he felt.

The equivalent event in Croft’s life was the — allegedly genuine — report that former RIAA head Hilary Rosen will be helping the new Iraqi government write its intellectual property laws.

It wasn’t all about oooiiilll — it was all about mp3s. . . . So why were Madonna, et al., opposing the war?

I’m skeptical, especially upon listening to the audio stream of the report, but you never know. After all, Kissinger did get the Nobel Peace Prize.

And so did Yasser Arafat.