I too read a large sample of the posts after reading his article and was surprised at the vehemence expressed in many of them. His basic point I thought was that all this fawning over the Dixie Chicks as some sort of standard bearer for free speech rights and standing up to the man has gone way over the top. I thought his take that "we're ashamed to be from Texas" is no different than "we love you London, Toronto, Tashkent..."was fairly astute.

The Macleans guy's article is quite funny re Globe "politics" but still think REG got it right.