Mediocre Beer

I was explaining to an out-of-town friend how Fayetteville's new ban on smoking in restaurants had been the final nail in the coffin of the Brew Pub on Dickson Street. I told him what it boiled down to was that, when given choice between drinking good beer in a restaurant and going somewhere else to smoke or drinking mediocre beer in a bar and smoking at the same time, too many people chose the mediocre beer.

We agreed than much about the state of society can be summarized that way: too many people chose the mediocre beer.

That's my profound thought for the evening. Definitely going to try to track down some of the good stuff this weekend.