June 19, 2004
bee a good scout (quote)
Its emphasis on the outdoors and on personal courage and initiative notwithstanding, the scouting ethos had always had something modern and totalitarian about it. [Robert Baden-Powell] could not even keep his nature notes under control: he told his trusting readers that industrious bees were to be admired: "They are quite a model community, for they respect their queen and kill their unemployed."
-Christopher Hitchens, Young Men In Shorts
Posted by yargevad at June 19, 2004 12:25 PM