Two miracles required

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we discovered a long-overlooked tub of feta cheese which had turned green in the fridge, and threw it away. With the hundreds of saints of the Catholic Church, it is curious that St. Patrick's feast day is the only one that has developed into an occasion for drunkenness and boiled cabbage. Couldn't we find some nice Italian saint to feast with pizza and Pepsi, the official beverage of MLB? Wasn't there a St. DiMaggio? Wouldn't that have been Joseph or his brother Vincent?

APPARENTLY, the cost of newsprint is negligible, because I am still receiving the Bee almost a week after I supposedly cancelled. Parenthetically, their editorial today described Rush's use of the words "slut" and "prostitute" as less than civil, but fell short of characterizing them as having been inaccurately applied to Ms Fluke.