Ah....yes, I suppose.

A lot of this comes from a perspective of assumptions I have based on the public persona of the celebrity in question. Do they walk the walk they talk about or is it an Animal Farm case of all are created equal but some are more equal than others? When Al Gore stops flying on private jumbo jets half way across the world to give a 2 hour speech, perhaps I'll start listening to him regarding the evils of burning fossil fuels. I think a satillite link would work quite well.

A couple of examples - Martin Sheen spent a night on a sewer grate so he would know what it was like to be homeless. HAH! Big flippin' deal. He knows he has his multi million dollar mansion (presumably...at least a very nice home) to go to in the morning. The homeless don't have that, so he knows squat and it was a ridiculous publicuty stunt. Bono, on the other hand, takes his charitable work with Africa very, very seriously and while I have no idea what he gives to his own causes, I would suspect (and S4Steph can pobably fill in the details) it is quite extensive.

So....I suppose I make a lot of assumptions based on what I'm seeing and/or reading. But I don't know how else to be, really. If a celebrity is going to use their public status to voice opinions or concerns, I need to see that they take such things seriously in their own lives before I can begin to take them seriously.

Dixie Chicks Cancel Concerts due to slow ticket sales

From the same article:
So, they're not dropping the number of shows. They just have more Canadian venues now.

This goes with my theory that they'll be adding more dates in areas that are more anti Bush and dropping dates in areas that are not. It's all about ticket sales. There's talk here in Phoenix that they'll end up dropping that show all together because ticket sales aren't just slow, they are practically non existant.

Makes sense. Why waste your time where you're not wanted.

Yep. Capitalism in action. Both sides are going to attempt to spin. The Dixie Chicks management will be saying something like "demand is so great in these areas that we can't put off our fans" and the disgruntled will be saying "see - America doesn't want them so they're going to Canada".

It just is what it is.

And their song Not Ready to Make Nice is still topping the charts.

They just need to book into a smaller venue - makes for a better show anyway.

And it keeps going..... and going.....

10th stragiht week of the #1 video.

Now I suppose by now some of you are wondering why I still care. It's record breaking and these rankings are done by the future.

There is hope, there will be a swing in 08.