Have even the Irish have succumbed to the paranoid/humorless-thinskinned crowd? Link. Excerpt:
Democratic candidate for mayor C. Virginia Fields is apologizing for using the term "paddy wagon" in an interview with NY1 last week.
In Alabama on Friday, the Manhattan borough president talked about being arrested during a civil rights protest in 1963. In her comments, she described police vans as "paddy wagons" ”“ a term that's considered offensive by some Irish-Americans. "Paddy" is a common Irish name and was used in the past as a pejorative to insult Irish people.
