The Pendragon's Hall

In only the latest installment of how everything is now news, Forbes magazine this past week released a list of the 34 "Drunkest Cities in America." Ironically most of them seem to be in the Midwest. The Pendragon was amused to see that Milwaukee is number 1. I suppose that explains why their baseball team is "the Brewers." It may also explain why they are so bad--perhaps they're all drunk. Or possibly, people get so drunk because their team is so bad. Cities with good teams either didn't make the list or were quite far down. I do not know what possible use it can serve knowing what cities are "the drunkest" especially when the magazine has to issue a whole series of clarifications, explaining that they didn't mean to suggest that "drunkest" meant being careless with their drinks and so on. Just one more example of the media's new fascination with classifying everyone.