Heineken and Sam Adams boycott St. Patrick's Day parades

A brief history of the holiday: http://video.adultswim.com/family-guy/irish-history.html

 

Still time this evening to celebrate Purim.

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm

 

I'm not Catholic or Protestant, I won't be wearing orange or green (not that I'd play dress-up to "celebrate" a blood feud, anyway).
Maybe I'll crack open a bottle of scotch and read some Yeats, or something.
Anything to avoid Amateur Night out at the bars.

 

You would be surprised how many times I had to tell reporters and editors from outside the Southwest US that Cinco de Mayo was not Mexico's independence day.

 

I guess you have a story then.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9468434

 

I did some study in Paris as a young collegian.
Bastille Day was 10 times the shit show St. Patrick's Day or July 4 is.
You know the French- always effervescent, to a fault.

 

March 17 is amateur night expanded a few hours. You shouldn't need a silly holiday to enjoy a pint before noon.

 

They say God invented alcohol to keep the Irish (and the Scottish) from taking over the world.

 

Interesting. Yuengling actually passed Boston Beer recently.

 

Guinness, too. It's nice to see the beer community stepping up for the LGBT folks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/guinness-pulls-out-new-yorks-st-patricks-day-parade

 

Any word from Schmitt's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMF-4b6wr4

 

Really? Given SA is national, I wouldn't have expected that.