Poor Rob Ford. He makes the most successful attempt to cross racial and cultural lines, yet - agreeably smoking crack with Canadian gangbangers - and look what it's gotten him:
"The facts, however unpalatable. The truth, no matter how bitter” is, conservatives have reduced the enterprise of governing to soap opera, displaying all the signs of bad actors (pun intended) who - like the French - are fun to watch, but still deserving of contempt and comeuppance.
History shows the answers devised, for even the country's obvious flaws, were always long in coming, and most only after a long fight - why, that has to be so, is the question.