At The American Prospect, Charles Pierce cancels John Miller's membership in the Columbia Record and 8-Track Tape Club:

It allowed Miller to establish once again NR's longstanding affection for the Confederate States of America with the inevitable "Sweet Home Alabama" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." While it's true that old WFB stood in spirit always with "the guv'nah" in that schoolhouse door, it's also plain that Miller can't possibly ever have listened to the devastation in Levon Helm's voice. Secession, as my friend, Roy Blount, once wrote, was a bad idea at the time and looks even worse in retrospect. Also, it's interesting that Confederate nostalgia rates so high as a conservative value that it rates two songs. None dare call it treason, I guess.