Drugs? Alcohol? Hookers? I did see that one article (or was it the most recent ITO? Hard to keep track) where it said his Deco bonus was cut drastically from one year to the next. Still no excuse for ducking out of child support. Lots of people who make far less than them (even them in a bad...

Do you know the family? I definitely don't, and just a guess here, but I would think the dysfunction probably started with (or before) Doug Sr. and Diane...who gives their children a lie detector test?

Thanks for your response! I'm glad you're taking it as a compliment - it certainly wasn't meant in a negative way. I just meant that you're mysterious, popping on with the odd bit of Randy family court information here and there, and then disappearing. :) I certainly agree that the entire family...

Oh, lizangel11, you certainly are an enigma. :)

Very interesting, thanks for the insight. I'd love to hear more, if you have the time and inclination!

I remember that! Too funny.

Ha! My background is in clinical psychology, and the nature vs. nurture debate is far from settled, but anecdotally, when you have 4 f-ed up kids from one family, that's a pretty big argument in favour of nurture. Disclaimer - Not necessarily true in all cases, but the Fords seem to be...

He brought it on himself for posting things as though they were a certainty, long after his sources dried up. And he continued to do so on Twitter long after he stopped here.

What is bizarre is that he thinks he has enough credibility left to influence people. Internet fame is a fleeting thing...

:) My thoughts exactly.

Agree with both of you. :)

...and why that question was even asked in the first place. Because just out of the blue? Weird.

LOL! That's awesome!

I'm told what I can and can't think, and then that I need to try harder to understand a point? And I'm the one who sounds like a Sun forum clown? Alrighty, then...

I can't? I guess I missed that part of the citizen's rule book. Loan me your copy? ;)

Agree that she waited too long to address Tory. She seemed to coast into September, which I think was a bad decision. I think I even heard comments from her camp to the effect of her campaign would not really be getting into full swing until September.

I don't think it says anything about her integrity, at all. Would it be gratifying to me, personally, to see her go after Doug? Sure. I would also like to see small children kick him in the shins in the streets too, but it's not going to happen, and even if it did, it wouldn't fix things. What...

I don't really think she's piling on Tory - she's doing her job, pointing out the flaws in the front-runner's campaign. She's also treating Doug like the non-entity he is. I firmly believe his ceiling is around that awful 27% figure that has been bandied about so much, and I think his actual...

Ha, you added the smiley, wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic. :) In my view though, I think that's how things generally play out. I think the mayor is mainly the voice from on high, and all kinds of experts/heroes/committees/etc. take over in times of crisis, to the extent that the mayor...

Tory would present an authoritative voice in an emergency. Olivia would be comforting, perhaps informational. Ford would bluster in his usual way, and make it about grandstanding. And then, when any of the three are done, experts who can actually get the things that need to be done accomplished...