{"id":34001,"date":"2022-09-24T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34001"},"modified":"2022-09-24T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:31:31","slug":"outer-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34001","title":{"rendered":"Outer Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"882\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IgdSEiC4pJk\" title=\"My Top 10 Favorite Episodes Of The Outer Limits\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just returned from Mt. Royals Shopping Center&#8230;..(They call them supermarches in French) where I picked up the latest Reader. I try to pick one up every week one of my columns appears. I like reading them in the actual paper just as I like to go to the Reader webpage to do the same. <\/p>\n<p>I woke up late this morning 8:30. It took me hours to fall asleep and at 2 I gave up and practiced my French for a couple hours. So as I write this short post its already almost 2 in the afternoon. I&#8217;ve got some reading and writing to do but I cranked out a column on pedophilia which I think I can turn into next week&#8217;s column. That gives me time to finish another chapter in the story of a part of America&#8217;s extermination of Indians before I start writing.  So when I got to Mt. Royal there was the annual table where Boy Scouts sell popcorn and I had to buy a bag of Carmel corn just like I have to buy girl scout cookies when they come up for sale. I buy more freely from the girl scouts because I like their cookies better.<\/p>\n<p>So as I approached a boy scout and his family I was asked if I had boy scouts in the family. My Dad, the least outdoors ready man I ever knew, was a Life Scout and I only managed to reach being a First Class Scout. (lower on the rank totem pole)  I started in Kansas and rejoined them in North Mankato,  Minnesota. I only mentioned my brief membership to the popcorn venders. I tried to get my son in Tiger Cubs a new innovation for very young kids but he wasn&#8217;t happy to have me at his meetings\/; He never got into cub scouts. But I could add of my own time in the Scouts that our meetings were always on Monday night so that I missed Outer Limits a Twilight Zone like series. I told the corn sellers I was conflicted and the Dad commiserated with me telling me that it was the era before Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>My experiences in Scouts were nothing much to write home about but it didn&#8217;t do me any harm. Certainly Scouts had not yet been exposed as a magnet for pedophiles. Which by the way is a good lead in to a long story about a current wave of exposing and shaming adults who are on the look out for available teens to have sex with. I read a very long story that sympathetically treated the exposers up to a point and one of the people they exposed who demanded a day in court. I am grateful for the New York Times for printing an intelligent story that treats both sides of this tricky issue with respect. (Darn. I can&#8217;t find it now)<\/p>\n<p>As for Outer Limits.  In the VHS days my Dad bought us one of the first players. This was before Blockbuster and the only place I could find the first VHS movies was a porno store in Downtown Duluth. The Porno was hidden by some curtains. I was delighted to find copies of the Outer Limits to play for my kids who were in grade school at the time. They liked them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from Mt. 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