Victor Laszlo could not be reached for comment.

Michael Lopez links a news item about a high school band director who had to apologize when the halftime show he'd designed included the display of a Nazi flag and the playing of the Nazi anthem.

That, as Michael notes, does sound bad at first, but upon further examination it turns out that the band director was trying to do a historical show about World War II and the combatants thereof; from the description, it sounds as if the Nazi anthem was played as, well, Darth Vader's theme is employed in the Star Wars movies, simply as an indicator of who the enemy was. (Michael also rightly wonders why the Soviet Union's theme was left out, which gives me cause to cite Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and its musical depiction of the Siege of Leningrad.)

It sounds to me that the band director's real error was in attempting something of this level of historical sophistication at a high school football game. To be frank, this isn't exactly the kind of crowd that's likely to appreciate nuance.

(By the way, if you're not reading Michael's blog, you're missing out on a lot of good stuff. Especially when he goes on a posting binge, which he appears to be doing right now.)