Well, maybe I was hasty. Ten years ago, when my daughter was seven, I decided to teach her to play mumblety-peg, which was an unsupervised past-time for all 7-year-old boys in my youth.
So I went to the Boy Scout supply store to buy a couple of Boy Scout jack-knives, and was stunned when I was told that Boy Scounts couldn't just buy one without some kind of training because of legal liability concerns.
I remember being a Cub Scout in 3rd grade, and on certain days being invited to wear our uniforms in school INCLUDING the jack-knives that we all wore proudly dangling from our Cub Scount belts.
Now Boy SCouts have to "EARN" their "totin' chip"? Puh-leeze.
If you ask me, they've all been turned into a bunch of damned
