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Which, if you believe Mad Men, is before they were born (the very first episode, set in 1960, has a discussion between an older man and a younger man about the younger's decision to wear a wedding ring). They have the vocabularies and speech cadences of much older people, too. It's bizarre.

He's definitely unhinged, but so was the father. I think unhinged is just their style and it becomes more apparent the more stressful things get.

That's a common line (heh) of argument and has some merit, but it astonishes me how many Ford friends/fans talk as if cocaine use were the only wildly inappropriate thing Ford has done while in office. It's as if they haven't read or watched anything over the past ten months.

I don't doubt the latter, but the former? I don't know anything of her history -- who would have hurt her? I agree that Ford supporters as a group seem to feel victimized. I also note a consistent strain of "everyone does it, he just is the only one who gets caught", which is basically the...

I still don't understand why people let him touch them. I'd need to go home for a shower after taking that pic.

No one. That's kind of the whole point.

His transit "platform" was by far the most worrying (as opposed to just embarrassing) thing to me when he was elected. The campaign video on YouTube, where he seriously suggested pedestrians should move from the sidewalks to a network of winding footpaths through the ravines...yep, that's how I...

Doug and Diane have consistently denied that Rob has any kind of substance abuse problem. No way they're going to participate in an "intervention".

I get a handful of low-level drug cases. Most cases don't get reported, and even very good lawyers don't necessarily show up in the CanLII database all that often, particularly if they don't choose to do really high-profile, high-stakes, super-stressful cases. So Morris not showing up on...

Yes.

Whoops, sorry. Sometimes I fail at this bulletin board interface.

You forgot C) they get to decide exactly who's going to get help and what help they're going to get. Sometimes this is truly sinister (making charitable help contingent on religious conversion, etc.) but often it's just egocentric crap like the Rob Ford Football Foundation. Ford loves...

And yet you give money to homeless people and you say your mother donates to homeless shelters. You're all over the place. Or rather, you aren't; you don't actually mind the poorest and most vulnerable being dependent, but you'd prefer they depend on your whims for their basic survival, rather...

Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but given that this thread is about Rob Ford, who is demonstrably not nice to his family to the point of being criminally charged, and whose fans have let him skate on all sorts of nasty behaviour because it's his "personal life", I think it matters a little bit...

Seeing her on a panel with Andrew Coyne and a couple other people, though (don't have the link, it's in this thread somewhere), I don't think she meant it that way. She seemed to be saying that some people give him breaks for his horrible behaviour because they think he's too stupid to know any...

He probably didn't buy a new suit after he lost weight. And it probably didn't fit all that well when he bought it.

Oh, no one thought Rob Ford was a vegetarian. It's Doug who is alleged to be one.

Probably not as many as fat meat eaters, but sure. Vegetarians can still pig out on ice cream and nachos and the like. Although with Thug's wife and daughters being health/fitness nuts, I'm inclined to think he just has middle-aged spread/a genetic tendency to get fat, since almost...

That is not even close to the "whole idea of the human rights." That is one right among many. And Ford is free to express whatever beliefs he wants as soon as he goes back to being a private citizen. As for whether people can be influenced to have gay sex, even if that were the case, so what...

Shhh...it doesn't understand sarcasm. ...and it's amazingly f*cked up to call open bigotry "courageous." Being unpopular doesn't mean you're right or brave, it just means you're unpopular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum