If the Mayor Ford story weren’t crazy enough (it took a big leap forward today on the Ford brothers weekly radio show), there’s something else getting discussed fairly feverishly among Toronto reporters. That’s the existence of a second video.

We know from last week’s police press conference that the police have more that one video in their custody. So there is more than the crack video. That is a fact, to the extent we really know anything in this cartoon. About what’s on it, nothing’s publicly known or confirmed.

Nobody has been willing to say publicly yet what is suspected to be on it. But here’s one of Toronto’s top columnists hinting today that it could dwarf everything else to date.

In his much-ballyhooed announcement on today’s radio show, Mayor Rob Ford says he’s not resigning (aka, too legit to quit), says he’s sorry for mistakes, will “ride out the storm”, “continue fighting for the little guy…” Says he needs to “slow down” on his drinking.

A great interview with Lou Reed, from about 15 years ago, considerably mellowed from his early years. After the jump. Read More

Could this be the end? Probably not. But maybe. The word out of Toronto tonight is that embattled, poll-rising crackhead Mayor Rob Ford is going to make a special “announcement” tomorrow on his weekly radio program which he does with his brother. In case you’re keeping score at home, remember, that’s Doug Ford, who sits on the City Council and was apparently was the big drug dealer in the Ford’s home town when they were growing up. Read More

Wanted to make sure people saw this piece.

A group of red state Dems in the Senate are pushing a series of ‘reforms’ of Obamacare that would actually be deeply damaging to the law.

We’re one month into Obamacare. What do you think? Are you optimistic or pessimistic. We’re getting everyone’s gut-check and discussing our reactions to the first month of the rollout in this thread at The Hive (sub.req.).