Gleaning FaceBook: A Boy's Life

The blustering and bomb-testing (late fifties and early sixties) was scary for thirteen-year-olds too, as I recall. When I renewed my Boy's Life subscription that year (Could they have had a five year subscription period?) I wondered, quite seriously, if I, or Boys Life for that matter, would be around for all those issues.

What a gloomy note for Christmas Eve! But, hey, we survived and Boy's Life inked editions are still surviving these digital days.

And I talked briefly with Santa a while ago. He's a little aggravated with me for the interruption* and would just turn off his iPhone except he's become dependent on it to coordinate complicated resupply system with the elf/reindeer relays from the North Pole. He's making deliveries through Asia right now and, thank goodness, on track to make it to North America right on time.

* it goes without saying that releasing all that personal info on Santa, including his cell number, means a lifetime supply of stocking coal for Anonymous!

[The article by Bill Moyers is no longer available at this site]

David Marlin Rains I remember reading a Boys Life article back in the '50s. Johnny runs for a touchdown but only Johnny, not the refs or anybody, realizes he stepped out of bounds. So Johnny confesses and his team loses. At that age, I didn't have the vocabulary but I was thinking HorseManoo.
Terrell Shaw Granted, but my idealistic young soul always looked forward to finding Boy's Life in the mail.
David Marlin Rains O me 2
John Paul Schulz Boy's Life and Saturday Evening Post. I loved that one.

George Barton made me think of the the spoof in the movie "Airplane" where a boy on the plane is reading Boy's Life and a habited nun sitting behind him is reading Nun's Life

Gleaning Facebook: Myth Laid to Rest

“The prevailing myth in America has been that the rich have a right to buy more homes, more cars, more gizmos, vacations and leisure. But they don’t have the right to buy more democracy. The Supreme Court has just laid that myth to rest, and the new gilded age roars in triumph.” - Bill Moyers 

Comments:

Wanda Mulkey Dagraedt
It's unbelievable.

Laurie Craw
Oh golly gee. Looks like we the people are going to have get off our duffs and do some democracy work in the next election.

Ruthy Countryman

ugh...