Scotland Fights for National Tartan Registry

We’ve talked enough about green stuff over the past couple of days. What about the other colors? Or, rather, all the colors, criss-crossed and all patterned-up. These are the things on the minds of Jim Mather and the National Archives of Scotland who are currently in the process of putting together a national registry of tartans. Tired of seeing them everywhere from football teams to Scrooge McDuck, a bill has been sent to parliament looking to put some funds toward getting all the real tartans sorted out from all this miscellaneous fakery you see at things like highlands festivals in rural Iowa (this writer is allowed to make rural Iowa jokes because he lived in rural Iowa for two years).