It had to happen. Rob Ford brings his crack-smoking, binge-drinking, over-the-top ways south of the border to America. Well, not the real Rob Ford, if you want to be really technical about it. But Rob Ford, a crack smoker from Canada has now appeared in the first American attack ad.
The times they are a changin’ when a Croat group can sue Bob Dylan in France for inciting racism.
I’ve told you many times that reader emails are at the heart of makes TPM TPM. Some of it is news tips, which have been at the heart of some of our biggest stories. More often it’s just a constant stream of pointers to out of the way news reports we wouldn’t have known about otherwise. But more than anything it’s a never ending stream of commentary, opinion, story ideas, reactions and critiques that have become so deeply woven into my mental life that it’s hard to fully convey. What’s a treat after 13 years of doing this is that I still have every single one that was ever sent in.