Is Alaska familiar with St. Patrick’s Day? That one night of the year American-lrish people live for—yet can never remember? (The tragedy of my folk.) That’s right: I’m 50% Irish through my mother. (For those of you educated inside Anglo-Saxon economic systems—that means she’s 100% Irish.)

See what I did there? I directly challenged CVN readers’ senses of humor—as well as the existence and durability of the First Amendment—by making the most Irish joke of…