I don't know if I buy that rationale. I kinda think kids just have a lot of things to do and Boy Scouts is being left behind. If you've got karate, soccer, softball, video games, and any number of other things, maybe there isn't much appeal to joining the Boy Scouts.

One of the guys I met networking is a Boy Scout leader who runs a troop in Lowell that gets low income/immigrant boys for whom it really is a path for upward mobility and wider opportunities. This being MA, he's very apologetic about the national organization's political stances, but for him the good that he sees being done far outweighs the bad.

Mac had/is having a teary episode at therapy. Hellllloooooo long night.

Maybe I'll just start some cleaning tonight.

I see the same thing here with the Girl Scouts and the "city kids". It is, in some ways, an alternative to a gang, and thus does really great things. I think the problem is that they need money to do this and are losing he middle class kids to karate, baseball, etc. And I did stop donating to them because of the gay thing and I will not buy their popcorn.

Now for the post therapy diner hamburger and fries, that may cure all ills.

ION my stomach hurts.

I hope the prescription works, msbelle.

I spent $$ to be told Mister Kitty is just fine, and the peeing probaqbly is 99% habit/scent. yay! The vet had some suggestions for breaking the habit I haven't tried, but eh. Puppy pads work too (he just pees in front of the box about once a day, still using the box otherwise.M oving the box doesn't work...cause the front of the box is still there!)

Dr. Berry says hi, lisah!

Sophia, the Girl Scouts are a lot better on the gay issue than the Boy Scouts. Not perfect, but pretty far from where their counterparts stand.

Oh- I do still give to the girl Scouts-- I eat their cookies! I am glad that they are slightly more progressive

I was actually once next to the girl scouts at a "youth activity fair" when I was working in Children's Theatre and they seemed really great. Actually the Boy Scout ladies did too, but I can't get past their contribution to the "gay = child molester" view which drives me right up a wall.

ETA- Does anyone do 4-H anymore?

I just heard that the diner we come to every friday might be closing in june because of rent increases. This like an old-school small neighborhood diner where there are tons of regulars. That sucks.

Sarameg, my cat occasionally has peeing-outside-the-box issues, too. From what I've seen, she'll go into the box (it has a cover on it), squat down and start peeing, and then start to straighten up almost immediately and continue peeing so that the stream goes right out the "door" to land on the rug outside. If I'm in the bathroom when this happens, she gets yelled at and this startles her enough to stop, so I don't think she realizes what's going on.