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Women as a Force of Civilization
By Diana Hsieh @ 8:56 AM   
Really, you have to wonder what kind of person this guy was before his wife died:
:"Red" Rountree insists he's had a good life, an odd statement coming from a 92-year-old now serving a 12-year sentence for robbing a Texas bank. Mr. Rountree told the Associated Press that he stopped behaving after his wife died in 1986--hanging out with the wrong sort, taking to drink, experimenting with drugs and, eventually, robbing banks. He knocked over his first at age 86, in Mississippi, and a year later became the oldest inmate in Florida's prison system when he was convicted of robbing another in Pensacola. But he makes no apologies. "You want to know why I rob banks?" he asked the AP. "It's fun. I feel good, awful good. I feel good for sometimes days, for sometimes hours." Sheesh. And from the same page, more abuse of anti-trust laws: At the University of Wisconsin, where protesters once blew up the Army Math Research Center, a new generation of activists has filed a complaint in state court accusing two-dozen local drinking establishments of violating antitrust laws by collectively agreeing to eliminate their Friday- and Saturday-night drink specials. The bar owners told the Chronicle of Higher Education that they were simply responding to a call from the university to help cut down on student binge drinking. A lawyer for the tavern league told the paper: "When you combine a student with imagination with a lawyer with time on his hands, this is what you get." I say that this is an "abuse" of anti-trust, but really, much like with heroine, there is no such thing as wise use.  E-mail Diana Hsieh
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