I wonder who was more pleased, Joan Baez at being asked to introduce the Dixie Chicks, or the Chicks that Baez would introduce them? Update: I posted that right after their appearance opening the show. Little did I know what was in store for the song and the album later on down the road.
From an op-ed in today’s WaPo: Second, to expect any Iraqi leader who can hold his country together to be pro-American, or to share American goals, is to abandon common sense. It took the United States more than a century to get over its hostility toward British occupation. (In 1914, a majority of the public …