I don't want to detract from your main point, because I totally agree with it. But that joke is probably the most irresistibly tempting joke in the entire history of irresistible jokes about FoFam.

Preach on, brother! <sarcasm>No doubt your terse eloquence will get Stephen Harper all over this issue first thing Tuesday. He's all about fairness and good government, totally not about using an ill-gotten majority to pass legislation that 60% or more of voters really don't want.</sarcasm>...

Ha! Not the most sophisticated graphical humour ever, but it still made me laugh!

This. I'm not going to address every good point made in the quoted post, because (a) it's late and I'm tired and (b) even at the best time of day and well-rested, I'm not sure I'd be up to the task. I agree that RoFo's shamelessness is a big part of why he casts such an ugly shadow over the...

Maybe I am guilty of thinking that The Wire was a documentary ... but is it not Police 101 that when a suspect takes off running with a GARBAGE BAG FULL OF SUSPECTED EVIDENCE that some cops should follow the suspect and other cops should follow the garbage bag?!

I'm not sure that it was a fair question, but I am sure that the answer was terrible.

Too right. You're mixing baseball and hockey there, but an analogy to the Leafs/Bruins game 7 not long ago comes to mind. It would be reckless optimism on steroids, though, to hope that flawed but reasonable candidate OC could gain from this enough to take down both serial-self-wounder JT and...

This! I have been a Globe subscriber for decades, and am pretty grumpy about the quality of their operation in 2014, compared to the not-so-distant past. But I'm truly grateful that they were willing to spend the money to have Doolittle and McArthur travel to various dark and dusty...

That is just beautifully pathetic. "Police believe someone disposed of it during the commotion." Way to go, TPS. (But it's great that the story got into the Globe.) I agree that that's the best bit, but the lede is not too shabby ...

I really wish we lived in a world where I could crap on you for unreasonable hyperbole. Unforch, it seems like I should salute you for your phlegmatic understatement. Goddamn. I had modest hopes that the Toronto mayoral election of 2014 would be a choice between two candidates with reasonably...

It's in very poor taste for me to criticize your attempt to parody Joe Warmington. When I try, what I produce is more like a weak parody of William Shatner. Still, I think you ought to try more paragraph breaks.

Well-reasoned and very articulate bitterness here, for those with an appetite for that sort of thing ... http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/case-doug-ford (I found it by following a link in a several-hours-old ddale8 tweet, so apologies if it's ancient news to all who read this thread.)

Both of these are plausible: (1) Warmington's article is deeply dishonest and there was more family/friend support present for RoFo than Warmo suggests. (2) Really, all the people other than Warmo who know RoFo well really are staying at least 1000 yards away, in a situation where a...

Come on! You can punctuate way worse than that! Try harder! Or do you not quite have the stomach for it? ;)

Wow, thanks. At around 3:10 Doug says "Do you think I'd make this up" in way that pretty much induces the whole universe to say YES DOUG WE TOTALLY DO, and that's surrounded by him saying "Jennifer from the Toronto Star" over and over in a tone that is really creepy. Props to Jennifer Pagliaro...

dkm, as the kids say. I was going to go on at length about how awesome it was that jpags got "Do you think I’d make this up?" and "totally disingenous" into the same article, but can see that I've been beaten to both punches repeatedly.

From Sun article: I actually think Doug is telling the truth here, not due to any sort of virtue, just rage against Rob being so phobic as to throw away an opportunity to be productively sleazy and opportunistic. That family is a piece of work.

From said column: Tough but fair, and good for Royson James for getting that in print. ETA: Interesting and useful work by a lot of UTers today, checking to see whether what Doug said about his wife was in any way true. I think that even if what Doug said was factually true, it's still...

The non-paranoid part of me totally agrees. The paranoid part worries: You could also say, An idiotic incompetent lying city councillor known by more than a few to be a garbage-can substance-abuser would never get the support of serious political operators, and could never be elected mayor of...

+100. That was funny! I can imagine a disturbingly large part of what you wrote passing thru Rob and Doug's brains as self-evident truth. The only part I can't imagine is that they would know of words like checks, balances, and accountability. The JFK stuff is totally realistic in comparison.