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For years NASCAR was unstoppable, and it's still the second-most watched sport after football. It's still the only racing most people will ever see, but viewers are evaporating, as are sponsors and the crowds at the races, and it isn't just the bad economy. It's that people are beginning to notice the cloned cars, the guy on pole winning too often, the thick corporate glaze on every surface including the drivers' eyes - all this in a sport that started with government agents chasing booze-runners down country roads. While they probably wouldn't go for letting us do that again - too hard to televise, for one thing, not to mention the wear and tear on Federal employees - we have a few (let's say ten) modest proposals of our own for the day when, in the fullness of time, we are put in charge of NASCAR.
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