It's a familiar story: members of the Harford County Liquor Control Board say they are having problems with the would-be next tenants of the building on the southwest corner of Routes 1 and 152 formerly known as The Mallet (or is it Mickey's?).The operators of what is to be called Fallston Barrel House haven't provided requisite information on their liquor license application, causing the postponement of scheduled appearances before the board as required before the license can be issued."Quite honestly, they are not cooperating," board administrator Pilar Gracia said during the board's Aug. 31 meeting. Not a particularly good way to start out, we would say.Many years ago, we noted this particular location had become unsustainable as a restaurant masquerading as a night club (or vice-versa) by virtue of its succession of operators, each with big dreams – spiced with platitudinous claims to future success, and each ending with abject failure, usually with a litany of liquor regulation violations in their wake.Parallel to this sad story has been a succession of liquor board members, who have swallowed the bait and allowed the parade of operators to continue trying and failing and vowing that the next one will be different. Really? How long do you let this madness continue? The board's willingness to be duped over and over really does meet the Einsteinian definition of insanity.While it's true people have the right to use a commercial property such as the one in question for a business that serves food, provides entertainment and serves alcohol, hasn't the bigger message sunk in? No, and it won't, because everybody thinks they are smarter than everyone else when it comes to business deals. It's the American way to believe you can succeed where so many others have failed.Perhaps the "cursed" location, as current liquor board member Thomas Fidler referred to it in February 2015, truly has outlived its usefulness as a sit-down restaurant.But then, considering the renovations at the former Fallston Mall – renamed Fallston Village, where the liquor board granted a license to a Hawaiian-themed restaurant last week, and the continued apparent success of Texas Roadhouse just across Route 1 in Aumar Village, maybe there is yet hope for that other corner.Hope, indeed, likelihood for success, hard to believe. But the parade of futility will continue until – and it's a big stretch given the past – somebody actually succeeds there. Meanwhile, the folks who control the granting of liquor licenses will continue to play the fools, Einstein be damned.