The Dixie Chicks not being universally "fried" in Texas. KERA (Dallas) tonight made a point of playing cuts from their latest CD after remarking about the flap. I've never bought one of their CDs before, but I will now. (KERA probably doesn't represent a huge percentage of the Texas population, but at least it reaches the part that thinks).

I'm horribly embarrassed by this Resident of the US. Texans, above everyone else, knew better than to support him with his dirty tricks right-hand man Karl Rove and their get-richer-quicker buddies. Anyone who has the guts to speak up against Bush and Ashcroft and their cadre earns a lot of points in my book. Gore won the popular vote, and his crew should have had the sense to recount all of Florida, not cherry-pick a few counties. Democrats left the race open to the Reagan Supremes to appoint their favorite son. Too bad the Dixie Chicks will end up with the same kind of black eye that Sinead O'Connor got when she made a political comment years ago. I can't even remember what it was now--except it was blown out of proportion.

Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing it's idiot.