Should there be a Jack Bauer merit badge?

A Huffington Post blogger has a suggestion for the Boy Scouts of America. Forget about starting fires with sticks for the sole purpose of roasting marshmallows. Blogger Marshall Fine has some more practical advice: Offer a Jack Bauer merit badge.

He urges the National Guard and the Boy Scouts to create a reality TV show which would put Scouts through several tests and inevitably yield boys who have the Bauer-like skills needed to fight terrorists.

Included among the skills they'd be expected to master to earn the badge: Creating fireballs, knocking people unconscious with a paddle whittled with a pocketknife and "learning the correct moment at which to threaten the interview subject's eye with a kitchen knife and his family with painful death."