the rix mix

There's no bigots quite like Irish-American bigots. Although there's fewer of them around now, they're loud & abusive, & they still sound like they were beaten daily as children by the Sisters of Jesus de Sade, & were taught from a fantastical reactionary comic book edition of the old Baltimore Catechism with chapters devoted to the terrible dangers of labor unions, Jewish retail merchants, & apostate Irish-Catholics from Boston. Don't let them corner you in a bar or lure you into precoital pillow talk.