barry burton

From The Daily Beast:

Usually, the beer drinking precedes the disorderly conduct charges, but the unfolding Skip Gates brouhaha is no ordinary chain of events. And so Thursday evening comes the strangest beat yet: President Obama is hosting a racial summit/ happy hour that brings to one table these three men—a policeman, a professor, and a president—and their preferred brands of beer.

The NY Times posits that as time continues and the English can define themselves less and less as being British, perhaps the traditional English pub offers itself as a defining cultural institution to cling to.