Nannyism gone wild
: Jay Allen sends news that a middle-school marching band in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was forbidden from playing Louie Louie — the instrumental version — because one lone whining parent thinks it’s obscene. There was, by the way, an FBI investigation into the song years ago that concluded it is not obscene and, in any case, the lyrics can’t be understood. The Smoking Gun has pages from the file and the real lyrics.
