9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 14, 2004

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"Gee, Divot, at last count, Florida hosted 16 greyhound tracks... More than a third of the tracks in the United States... Where parasite-ridden dogs are caged, fed rotten food and raced to exhaustion. ...At which point, they're exterminated." "Yes... But that must be balanced with the entertainment factor... ...i.e., the unlimited availability of gambling and beer." "Come to Florida, where every visitor gets the opportunity to support the state's tourist industry via barbaric animal abuse, gambling neurosis and countless D.U.I. convictions." "Memories like that just don't grow on tress."