Way back in the Fifth Century, Eliot Spitzer took a “white slave” to Ireland. After many years of imprisonment, Little Saint Patrick escaped back to England, which was part of Rome at the time, and he remembered his Irish slavery so fondly that he vowed to return and destroy Paganism. It only took another 1,500 years for Ted Kennedy to drunkenly crash his car off a tiny bridge and drown his girlfriend. Learn more about St. Patrick’s Day, after the jump. MORE »

Just because your dad is the most powerful man in the world doesn’t mean you can’t get drunk on St. Patrick’s Day, just like the rest of us. A Wonkette operative wrote us as follows, via Treo, shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday: MORE »

Just a very brief reminder: we are still soliciting more questions for our Anonymous Hill Staffer to answer. So if you have one, lay it on us. That out of the way, let’s look at our favorite comments from this week — click on ‘em for context. MORE »

At least someone at the Post has a sense of humor. This image currently graces the paper’s homepage: MORE »