Things are really getting ugly in Scotland....

I think what strikes Americans first upon reading this is that the ocean seems very, very large. Over in Scotland the big scandal is cabbages and cauliflower. Over here it's executives bilking their company of $600 million, destroying the retirement funds of hundreds of employees and ruining the investments of thousands of shareholders. It's our involvement in an illegal and immoral war that is ruining the military, causing death and injury to countless thousands, threatening the economy and causing scorn and hatred in the rest of the world.

None of this justifies the humiliation that the employees of the Bank of Scotland suffered, of course. It was more than just a stupid idea, as they have now discovered.