On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

ObTrav: Youth organizations on planets that range from as innocuously
paramilitary as the BSA . . .

One of S. M. Stirlings post-Change cultures is based on a chartered plane full of Boy and Girl Scouts which crashlands into a marsh. Their descendants become (essentially) D&D rangers (although *mostly* without the spells)..

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.