Did someone put a curse on the Boy Scouts?

I only ask because they're rather dropping like flies this summer. Let's recap, shall we:

• Four Scout leaders are electrocuted at the Boy Scout "Jamboree" in Virginia
• Half the attendees of said Jamboree nearly pass out from heat exhaustion
• Five Boy Scouts have been killed by lightning or drowning in Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and California
• And it's not just limited to boys anymore: Some girls were at an overnight first aid camp at a Boy Scout retreat when a 31-foot tree suddenly just snapped in half and fell on them, killing one girl and injuring three others.

So what's going on? For those of you keeping count, that's nine dead Boy Scouts and Scout leaders and one dead Scout camp attendee... and all this has happened in a matter of just a very few weeks. Personally, if I were involved with the Boy Scouts, I don't think I'd be spending any appreciable time in the wilderness. Actually, if I were involved with the Boy Scouts, I'd submit myself for a lobotomy, but after that, then I wouldn't hang around outside much. Because it seems God or whomever is just mighty perturbed with this particular organization lately.

Oh, and also? I'd like a job as CEO of Walt Disney, Inc., please. But only for a year. Because apparently you can work that job for like 14 months, suck at it so completely that you get fired, and still be paid enough to retire very comfortably for the rest of your natural life ($140 million). Ten million dollars a month to do a shitty job? No wonder Disney stockholders are pissed off at their Board of Directors. Not even George Bush makes that much to do a shitty job.