Rob Ford Crackstarter Update

As of this writing, the Rob Ford Crackstarter—our attempt to crowdfund $200,000 to purchase and publish a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine—has exceeded $145,000. At the rate it's going, we will reach our goal by Saturday, if not sooner. Since it looks like the money may actually come together, we…

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"Operation Swill," a New Jersey investigation into bars scamming consumers by substituting cheap alcohol for quality booze, turned up one watering hole selling rubbing alcohol, caramel coloring, and other filler as scotch.

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In a speech interrupted by frequent heckling, President Obama today made a bold and daring call for America to try to adhere to age-old concepts of "law" and "basic human rights" in the amorphous and endless "war on terror." But might treating people "decently" threaten Our Freedoms?

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