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Pay up or get whipped

By Hunter S. Thompson
Page 2 columnist

Monday, January 21, 2002

Ed Bradley stopped by my house Sunday and said he wanted to watch the Rams-Packers game in peace, far from the madding crowd he'd been hanging out with, and perhaps to wager a dollar or two on the Packers. Wonderful, I thought. These suckers are everywhere. They are sentimental people, and they want to make sentimental bets. Why not indulge them? -- if only to restore balance to my own ledger, which was badly depleted as a result of my own stupid bets on the previous day, and also the previo ...

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