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As a not-so-proud Eagle Scout, I was intrigued when I read about the effort to institute a Duct Tape Merit Badge for Scouts. (I was looking for instructions on making a duct tape wallet.) Earning merit badges was one of my favorite parts of Scouts: drilling down on a topic like "Wilderness Survival" or "Basketmaking" exposed me to a variety of disciplines, skills, and career tracks. (I don't think there were merit badges for either "high-tech journalism" or "radical deconstruction," tho.) The proposed requirements are interesting; they include "Create a timeline of the history of duct tape," and making a cup, wallet or ring out of duct tape. Sadly, the news page informs us that the reactionaries in the BSA recently rejected the proposed merit badge.