If you are feeling down…

Go drinking all night with some Scots (and Brits and Irish) who are perfectly willing to hear you pontificate on the politics of your fucked-up country in a midtown diner in the pre-dawn hours. Make sure one of these Scots is an old, dear friend you haven’t seen in years. Your faith in everything will be renewed, just as the Scots (and Brits and Irish) are chorusing together to the Proclaimers song they have programmed into the jukebox. At least some people are still sane, even if they live in the British Isles.