To be honest I'm certainly not above thinking any kind of anything about Ford but I'm really starting to get the impression the girl isn't a hooker

Yeah that's not her. EDIT: Minnesota too according to a google image search

Alana is not Persian Princess. When I saw that on reddit the other day I emailed the address on the Persian Princess web site and she emailed me back and we ended up talking on the phone. She said that site that it was first posted on just makes shit up, apparently for a while they were saying...

Oh I realize. Ford is also nowhere near the orator that Long was. But like you said the us vs the elites (or fatcats in long's day) populism coupled with the wanton criminality... It fits very well

Yeah but those are apt only in a "duo of dumbasses" way. Which fits, don't get me wrong. But low rent Huey longs is fitting in a very specific way

THANK YOU! I think "low rent Huey Long wannabes" is the most apt description of the Fords I've heard yet. In fact I'd like to use that comparison in a post, and I'd be happy to give full credit if you want to email the blog address (its on the site) with a name I can cite

Yeah I think Pugash's comments are key. If it came out later that the police held back info about the mayor, especially a law and order professing mayor, I think the cover up accusation would have been far worse, especially with them not charging him at the time. Better for them to put...

Well maybe I'm cynical but I don't think that mentality is especially rare in politics, particularly on the right.

Okay but I mean, if they're interviewing Ford's staff, they HAVE to transcribe everything they say, that's part of the process. So that stuff was included in the report and then redacted as it was deemed irrelevant. Then the media sued to get that stuff released. Now the Post is saying that...

I find it hard to believe that a person with an obvious vocabulary is doing anything but trolling when he says stuff like "I don't see how providing "education" helps anybody in the long run" or advocates that the best way to deal with junkies is to let them all get clean or die off on their own.

I unfortunately disagree with the last bit, at least as far as their career prospects. I mentioned this once before - no matter what, they are still the architects of his election victory. They did it through all the awful means Coyne enumerates. But they still pulled it off, and it's about...

You know that's actually the first time I've seen that usage of incontinent instead of the generally practiced one. It threw me for a second. Bad mental image.

Sorry you're right my bad.

Okay dude but here's the thing. Ford's AIDS comments weren't said in a vacuum. He said them in service to his decisions over the years (including after he became mayor) to vote against and eventually scrap the funding of drug and AIDS prevention projects. Projects that include things like...

I read the earlier draft though and it still doesn't really get into any detail about what her "worrisome issues" are beyond what you can glean from the opening anecdote. It certainly implies there are more but it doesn't elaborate. Seems irresponsible to me. Either shit or get off the pot...

From the DiManno piece, I hate that this line is included: Without any elaboration besides the opening paragraphs and the one incident they describe. If the Star has decided that those issues are off limits to print, why include that line. It's a horrible tease. "We hear she's fucked up...

Doesn't the fact he's admitted to doing illegal things make those "facts" instead of "allegations" even if they haven't been proven in court? EDIT: I mean in a legal sense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er0TgfjNv8o George Stroumboulopoulos visits George Stephanopoulos to talk about Rob Ford. From a pure name basis, this is the greatest meeting in the history of mankind.

Yeah but those magnets just say Rob Ford Mayor and have his phone number, so the argument is that they're not campaign magnets, they're like magnetic business cards.

You can talk about running as much as you want, I believe. Campaign laws are specific to how you spend money if I understand them correctly.