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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/36500/
- Published: 2015-04-16T06:11:05.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-16T06:11:05.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![City Museum Bar](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/City-Museum-Bar-225x300.jpg)

This is a bar in St. Louis. It's on the main floor of the City Museum.

That's right, the City Museum, the St. Louis attraction that I described on Monday as, "an anarchic, do-what-you-want exploration playground for kids." But in the middle of this children's paradise, sat a full-service bar.

It was beautiful. I was mightily tempted to worship right there and then, but it was only 11:00 in the morning and I had a long sight-seeing day ahead of me.

This bar picture captures a truth that St. Louis has apparently grasped in general: Alcohol is a good thing and ought to be widely available. Everywhere we went--the fabulous St. Louis zoo, for instance--there was a bar or other alcohol vendor. And even though I saw lots of people drinking in the middle of these family attractions, I never once saw a drunk person.

It's a testament to one of my favorite essays: "[Pint Me Here and There](http://catholicexchange.com/pint-me-here-and-there?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)." Though I wrote it ten years ago, my views on the subject haven't changed an iota: Normalize drinking by making it widely available. You then decrease (not eliminate, but decrease) its abuse. I think this is one thing America is slowly beginning to understand. We'll see.