Let me give you a little excerpt from my “Salzburg Journal” today, then make a point about sneezing:

A young friend of mine shows me a video of her sister, singing in a school performance. The sister is about 16, I think. She’s singing “How beautiful are the feet” from Messiah.
I remark to my friend, “I’m not sure you could do that in an American public school.” My friend, startled, says, “Why?” I say, “Because it’s a religious song, or aria.” My friend says, “That’s really strange. Here in Austria, you can sing whatever you want. In this school performance, what each student sang was up to the student.”
I agree with her: The (new) American way is “really strange,” or can be.

Did you see this item about how a girl was kicked out of class for saying “God bless you” after someone sneezed? If you can’t say “God bless you” in those circumstances, you sure as hell can’t sing from Messiah, I promise you.

By the way, the incident took place in Tennessee. Amherst, Mass., or Marin County, Calif., I could understand. But Tennessee? Holy sh**.

(Would the word “holy” be banned in that school? How about the second word?)