Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my Irish kith and kin and to all of you out there pretending to be Irish for a day (you’re in good company)!  I don’t need to pretend, although you’d never guess I was Irish by my first name.  Genêt is obviously French.  But I’m at least fifty-percent Irish by blood and fifty-percent Irish by marriage.  More importantly, green is my favorite color, I can down several pints of Guinness with the best of them and I have pointy ears (okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration–depends on who you ask).  Regardless of [ ... ]