Parents are up in arms because Santa Fe High School band director Doug Morris told band members some dirty jokes, reports KTRK TV in Houston, Texas. A dozen parents wanted him fired but the school board is sending Doug for sensititivity training instead. No word yet on where the parents will go to remedy their humor deficiency. Nobody's laughing in another sensitive spot down south, either -- Washington State Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald discovered that the hard way after he declared, "We are the Mississippi of roads," according to the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. It turns out that Mississippi recently decided to spend nearly $9 billion on roads while Washington voters rejected an $8 billion road construction program. Still, it's hard to beat a good Mississippi joke. My personal favorite, heard frequently while growing up in yet another southern state: There are a lot of dumb people in Louisiana, but the dumbest are the ones who moved there from Mississippi.