Another year, another March 17th, another WTUE St. PatROCKs Day party. White people gather en masse and adopt an assumed heritage of Irish origins by consuming mass quantities of "green beer" (bud light with green tint) and traditional Irish Fare of overdone hamburgers and overdone chicken breast sammiches. (Corned beef and cabbage is a little too authentic) Kilts are worn (because Scottish and Irish are almost the same, right?) Whores come out in the daylight and act like whores with no fear of recourse. (who doesn't like whores, really?) Background noise and entertainment is provided by bands, strippers, dancers, and contests on the stage.
With a small percentage of Irish heritage myself, I'm left to question my cultural roots. Is drinking to the point of stupidity in my blood? Did the Irish provide anything positive to the world? While pondering these and other fruitless thoughts I still had a show to attend to.
On a completely different subject...
Proudly, I am also a direct descendant of John Adams: Founding Father and 2nd President of the United States. There is an HBO miniseries running currently about the life of John from 1770 through his Presidency. If the historical accuracy in this dramatization is correct I am a very proud descendant of one of the three men physically involved in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. We all know that Thomas Jefferson wrote it, but it seems as if John Adams, my family, was the delegate to the Continental Congress to commission the document from Mr. Jefferson and he was the delegate to present it to the Continental Congress for a vote. Mr. Adams and Benjamin Franklin were both privy to the original Declaration and proofread and edited it with Mr. Jefferson.
There is so much more information to know about this man and I want some real facts, not the dramatized version from HBO. Although I will continue to watch the miniseries I am all over the internet and public library trying to find out more about the role my family played in forming this nation. I suppose hating the existing government, lusting for freedom and a disdain for sociopolitical complacency runs in my blood.
...and yet another change of subject
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