Progress in Scotland

Campus buildings named after Adam Smith, James Watt, and various other inconsequential “dead white men” will be renamed after women and blacks, Glasgow University has announced. I don’t know who they will honor, but one deserving black did occur to me: Cotton Watts, a comedic genius some believe is one of James Watt’s distant descendants.


This revisionism is supported by Nicola Sturgeon, a Glasgow U. graduate and current leader of the Scottish National [sic] Party. According to her, the initiative is “hugely important…Women have done great things and fantastic things, but you struggle to find the evidence of that.”

Finding that evidence is a struggle. It’s almost as if it doesn't exist.

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  1. I hate to be pedantic, he lied, but surely Chick is the white female of the duo?
    Nevertheless, James Watt, inventor of the steam powered banjo, should never be forgotten.

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    1. Thanks for noticing that, I corrected it to Cotton then thoroughly berated my proofreader.

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  2. I make so many horrible mistakes of my own that's it's always a relief to see other people make them too, if only rarely in your case.

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