I'm going to the Dixie Chicks concert tonight.

I think that regardless of what one thinks of their political opinions, or their music, in this world where young girls look to people like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as supposed role models, it is refreshing and hopeful that a group of fierce, independent thinking and classy women are also on the stage.

The point to me is not what they had to say, but that they had the courage to stand by it when faced with the kiss of death in the music business - loss of fan base. If girls can learn from that rather than how to be a Slave 4 U, or how to star in your own internet porn movie, I think we just might be ok.