Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Rebel Black Dot Song of Union
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, "Slow Marches: Going Home, My Home, the Skye Boat Song" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: Bagpipe music today, because my heritage is one-quarter Scottish—just as much Scottish as it is Irish, though my middle name & Catholicism make me seem more Irish—& yet I should have been ashamed of that heritage had Scotland voted "Yes" to the S.N.P.'s asinine independence referendum. I am against the idea of Scotland as a nation independent of the United Kingdom, but my most vigorous objections are to the fairy-tale manner in which Yes Scotland tried to sell the independence referendum, not as a mature discussion on Scotland's future but as an infantile protest against imaginary ills, & to the referendum's attempt to disenfranchise the English, the Welsh, & the Northern Irish, as if Scotland's departure from the United Kingdom would have no impact on those other constituent peoples of the British nation. Today I can again be proud of my Scottish lineage.

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