Song of the Day 3/24: Monty Python, “The Penis Song”

Satire died a good while back, which is the only way you can tell this story is true: A principal in Florida got fired when a parent complained about an art teacher showing the class a photograph of Michelangelo’s David. The parent called it “pornographic.”

The part that makes it art, or at least performance art: The school is a “classical” charter school, one that supposedly educates the kids in the values of Greek and Roman antiquity. But not the Renaissance, apparently. Not even naming it after a Biblical hero kept the Xtians at bay.

Eric Idle warned about this back in 1983 in “The Meaning of Life,” but did they listen? Indeed they did not.