Dixie Chicks: Vindicated, Never Silenced, Leaving Conservative Nashville in the Dust

They're about to release a new album, produced by Rick Rubin, the cat who saved Johnny Cash from those same Nashville corporate a-holes.

Moreover, we now know that, contrary to what puke-helmets like Bill O'Reilly claim, they were never seriously hurt by the weak, disingenuous "boycots" organized after Natalie Maines's remark about President Bush. Doesn't make the attempt to silence them excusable, but it does prove what I've been saying all along: conservative culture is a mile wide and an inch deep.

In fact, they not only have the last laugh, but a loud one at that: the country music establishment doesn't want to lose them, but they will; and the politically conservative foundation of the Nashville establishment is itself beginning to crack.

I eagerly await the release of the new album.