Boy Scouts and Punch Bowls
I had never met any Boy Scouts, but surely Boy Scouts would rise to the occasion and help me figure out how to get this water back to camp
Tagged: Boy Scouts
Wednesday Writs: Silkwood Showers and Plutonium Flowers Edition
In the The Simpsons, Homer carelessly tosses a glowing plutonium rod. But in 1974, an employee at the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant did, somehow…
Scouting, Moving Forward, Struggles to Carry its Baggage
It is possible that scouting’s heyday is past. Its admirable attempts to be more inclusive and evolve and change with the times in other ways may have been untenable to those clinging to the tradition the scouts represent.
The Opening of the Boy Scouts
Mike Dwyer’s recent piece on changes in the Boy Scouts got me thinking about the world my young girls will inherit.
A Press Release From America’s Venerated Institutions
“Is it accurate that Coach Paterno quickly said to you, ‘I don’t want to hear about any of that kind of stuff, I have a football season to worry about?’” the man’s lawyer asked him in 2014.
“Specifically. Yes . . . I was shocked, disappointed, offended. I was insulted. . . I said, is that all you’re going to do? You’re not going to do anything else?”
Paterno, the man testified, just walked away.
