FASCISM ALERT: First, it was the book-burners in Deliverance Country that went after Natalie Maines. Now, it's Steve Nash of the Dallas Mavericks who's being told to shut the f*** up and play ball. What these two incidents have in common is that they both involve people who are a part of cultural activities closely associated with conservativism (country music and sports) taking perfectly mainstream positions at odds with that culture. When a country musician calls for the extermination of A-Rabs in response to 9/11, he's viewed as a patriot; when David Robinson demands that all dissenting voices to the war be squelched, he gets a pat on the back from the media. But when Nash and Maines take positions shared by hundreds of millions of people, that the war is wrong, or that Bush is a disgrace to his office, the right wing P.C. crowd freaks out.