Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's Family Has a Long History Dealing Drugs

A new piece by Toronto's Globe and Mail outlines how crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's brothers and sister have a long history with the suburban Toronto drug scene, and that his brother, adviser, and current Toronto city councilman Doug Ford was a major drug dealer in the eighties.

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Choice quote from this Times piece about Hamptons residents who fear Hurricane Sandy ruining the Jersey Shore means those people may instead come to the Hamptons this summer: "I don’t want to get anywhere near that sort of thing."

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Lessons in the Darkness: Young Life Unsupervised in Montana

Lydia Bearback and I were elementary classmates on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in a town called Browning, Montana. Browning is a small town in Northern Montana with a population of a whisker over 1000. Like most Indian reservations on the Great Plains, the Blackfeet Reservation was governmentally engineered to be …

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Seven Injured as Train Accident Collapses Overpass [Photos]

Early this morning in Rockview, Missouri, a Union Pacific train hauling auto parts t-boned another freight train at an intersection, derailing the Union Pacific train and collapsing a highway overpass in the second major train derailment this week.

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I Had Tequila And Watched 5 Fast & Furious Films So You Won't Have To

The new Fast and Furious movie, Fast and Furious 6, is coming out this weekend, and seeing one of these movies for the first time can you leave you feeling a little lost. Luckily, I sat down with a bottle of tequila and watched all five previous films, so that you don't have to. Good times naturally ensued, all…

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'Thong Cape Scooter Man' is Perfect, Legal

"Thong Cape Scooter Man," is a 56-year-old man who, when the weather gets nice, rides around Madison, Wisconsin on a scooter while wearing only a thong, a helmet and a black cape. It's a perfectly reasonable reaction to the long-awaited arrival of springtime in the Midwest.

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