Throw a pint glass today, and you're likely to hit a St. Patrick's partyer. The celebration brings out revelers in droves, even if most of them couldn't pronounce "Erin go bragh," much less explain what it means.

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According to Guinness -- the beer, not the world-record book -- 3.5 million pints of the Irish stout will be poured today in the United States. The man to thank? Brewmaster Fergal Murray.

Last month, James Clifford Hanna of the Yukon Territory argued in court that "James Clifford Hanna" was involuntarily given to him as a name and that, because he had never officially accepted it, he can't be forced to pay James Clifford Hanna's taxes. He lost.

--Chuck Shepherd, Universal Press Syndicate