Independence Day

By Cernig

Being a Scottish ex-pat, every year I get asked what I think about the U.S. Fourth of July holiday. Few expect the answer that I'm jealous, as I explained in a post way back in 2005. Still, recent events suggest that the Scottish Independence Day is getting closer - that's going to be the World's biggest party ever!

And while I'm archive trawling, I want to point to James Joyner's excellent post from 2006, in which he blogged the signing of the Declaration of Independence as if he were observing the event with a modern hard-right conservative's love for the unitary executive, the trade off of liberty for safety and the belief that the military should be exempt from foreign law even while in foreign places. Great stuff.

Have a great day, folks. I plan to spend a large chunk of it in pursuit of geekyness, playing GURPS role-playing game with my teen sons.