Éire go Brách

Happy St. Patrick's Day and all that stuff.

Hope you're wearing green. Hope you don't turn green today.

Remember the Irish and their various non-cliche contributions to society. Apparently there were four times as many Irish in the Union army as in the Confederate army during the Civil War (if the Internet is to be believed). They were a badass working class in America's early days and, like the Chinese, are helped build the railway systems that the U.S. depended upon.

Their folk music mutated into modern-day Country and Western music. I'm not sure they should be thanked for that.

Oh let's face it. In the states, we just use this as another excuse to party.

And I'm okay with that.

Sláinte