Well, maybe not a big break. But perhaps a conceptual break. Or perhaps a new slogan for the 2014 reelection campaign he committed to running yesterday – “Yes I Smoked Crack But No One Got Killed!” Also, young Somali supporters of the Mayor reportedly considered making a faux Ford Crack Video to discredit the real one using a local Ford lookalike named ‘Slurpy’ – but ‘Slurpy’ pulled out. Read More
Bill O’Reilly: Ex-IRS commissioner’s 157 visits to White House are ‘smoking gun’ in IRS scandal. Watch.
Dan Quayle aide counsels Rick Perry: No way to shake the moron rep once it takes hold.
Defunct ‘Soviet Union’ lives on as .su, a top-level domain name infested by spammers, thieves and other criminals.
Russian scientist have found a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass which still contains liquid blood, spurring hope that cloning a woolly mammoth might now be possible.
Mayor at center of crack scandal: “Things are doing great and we’re doing fine,” he said.”
More ricin letters appear, and Howard Dean lets loose against “silly right-wing nonsense.”
The upside of the rash of departures from Mayor Rob Ford’s office is that it is presumably getting easier for Ford to crackdown on leaks, simply because there aren’t that many people left working for him When a leak does emerge, it gives a smaller population of people who it could have come from. And that can make it easier for the press to figure out who’s talking. So from a scandal management perspective, on the Mayor’s and press’s side, it’s a net positive. Read More
If you have nothing better to do than hang around on Twitter in the evenings, you may remember that a couple nights ago there was a momentary full bore scare about a bomb going off in a trash can at Disneyland’s Toontown. It turned out it was a ‘dry ice bomb’ and no one got hurt. But not before a lot of people got pretty scared and a few ordered up Toontown Strong t-shirts. But now they’ve charged the ice bomber, Disneyland employee Christian Barnes.
Toronto Mayor and purported crackhead Rob Ford is scheduled to speak to reporters at 4:30 PM. So far two staffers in Ford’s office have quit today.