Why, because I'm opposed to how our culture treats St. Patrick's Day? Widespread binge drinking in America is shameful enough in and of itself, but to co-opt a religious holiday, one that the real Irish tend to take somewhat seriously, and use that as an excuse for excessive drinking and general stupid behavior, under the premise that "everyone is Irish today," is the sort of thing that any "sensitive and concerned college student" would be up in arms about if such a stance didn't run afoul of our valued drinking culture. Shouldn't characterizing the Irish as belligerent drunken idiots be the sort of thing that died with Thomas Nast? I just think the whole thing is foolish. Saint Patrick's Day is an Irish Catholic holiday. Seeing as I am neither Irish nor Catholic, I have no obligation to observe the holiday, and no business besmirching it.
Nah, it's just binge drinking here now too. The only people who still go to mass for it really are boy scouts and the aged.
Roll on 2008!