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I was going to write a treatise on the Meaning of Life this week, but I put it aside at the last moment when I got a tip that this might be the last chance I'll ever get to write anything about the XFL except an obituary.
The doomed league's TV ratings slipped another 25 percent for the weekend -- down 71 percent in the four quick weeks since Opening Day -- and that steep a slide is fatal.
If the Dow Jones Index plunged that many points in four weeks, the sidewalks of Wall Street would be littered with the broken bodies of Stockbrokers. Five-hundred people a day would be leaping to their deaths off the Golden Gate bridge.
The horrible reality of suddenly being stone broke and homeless is more than most people in this country can handle. They will literally seize up and go mad. Your everyday Nervous Breakdown is nothing compared to the hopeless Craziness of a man who woke up in the morning as a Prince and went to bed as a Toad.
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Thompson: Abandon all hope
Thompson: Fear & Loathing on Super Sunday
Thompson: Economy shrinks, breasts expand
Thompson: The Curse of Musburger
Thompson: Gambling Fever
Thompson: Ready for Sainthood
Thompson: State of disgrace
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Thompson: The fix is in
Thompson: The new dumb
Thompson: Commitment to excess
Thompson: Baseball rules