{"id":182058,"date":"2016-01-06T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/06\/larry-wilmore-and-trevor-noah-just-experienced-the-comedy-rapture\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:49:00","slug":"larry-wilmore-and-trevor-noah-just-experienced-the-comedy-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/06\/larry-wilmore-and-trevor-noah-just-experienced-the-comedy-rapture\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Wilmore and Trevor Noah Just Experienced the Comedy Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kind of like Norman Rockwell \u2026\u2026\u2026 On Acid<\/i><\/div>\n

Because the crack smoking, peeing in public, murder threatening, formerMayor of Toronto, Chris Farley wannabee Rob Ford has announced his candidacy for Mayor of Toronto<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Smoking crack<\/a>, urinating in public and threatening murder might each be the kind of behaviour you\u2019d expect to put an end to any politician\u2019s career. <\/span>

<\/span>But Rob Ford<\/a>, the former mayor of Toronto, seems to be the exception to the rule. And if he has his way, he might once again represent Canada\u2019s largest city.<\/span>

<\/span>During a Twitter exchange on Wednesday, Ford was asked if he planned to return to office.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cI\u2019ll be on the ballot running for Mayor in 2018,\u201d Ford replied<\/a>.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>But after months of speculation, Toronto police found the recording, and Ford was forced to admit that he had smoked crack \u2013 probably during a \u201cdrunken stupor\u201d. Yet he refused to resign.<\/span>

<\/span>Over the following months, Ford\u2019s behavior only grew more erratic, and stories of his previous behavior started to emerge.<\/span>

<\/span>In 2003, he called a colleague at a city council meeting a \u201cslithering snake\u201d who \u201cshould be back in his cage where he comes from\u201d. A year earlier, while discussing a public meeting on the possibility of a homeless shelter in his district, he asked: \u201cwhy don\u2019t we have a public lynching?\u201d and he was thrown out of a Maple Leafs hockey game after getting in a fight with fans while drunk.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2013, he was spotted<\/a> urinating in public behind an Etobicoke public school. The following month, during a raucous debate<\/a>, Ford barreled over an elderly politician, Pam McConnell, knocking her to the ground. Also during that month, a video<\/a> was released of the politician in a dining room raging about killing someone while apparently high, staggering and slurring.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This guy is comedy gold, and if he is elected, the people of Toronto are stupid beyond belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kind of like Norman Rockwell \u2026\u2026\u2026 On Acid Because the crack smoking, peeing in public, murder threatening, formerMayor of Toronto, Chris Farley wannabee Rob Ford has announced his candidacy for Mayor of Toronto: Smoking crack, urinating in public and threatening murder might each be the kind of behaviour you\u2019d expect to put an end to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1000,978,1104,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-elections","category-politics","category-psychology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}