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Not for the first time, I suddenly feel old.

I wouldn't worry about it unduly. Rob Ford can't change who or what he is, and he won't be able to lose a huge amount of weight. He's a man of great appetites and negligible impulse control. He's under a microscope now, and his every derailment will be chronicled.

Oddly enough, or perhaps not so oddly, several early instances of defenestration involved town officials -- but in Prague, not Toronto, way back in the 1400s. How upset do people have to be with their local political representatives that they feel compelled to throw them out a window?

Agreed. Let Ford and his ilk be the ones who take the cheap shots and employ the blunt, crude tactics. You rarely regret taking the high road.

What this would suggest -- and I don't disagree -- is that anybody who adheres religiously to a received political ideology, regardless of where it lands on the political spectrum, effectively surrenders his or her capacity to think critically. They have chosen partisan engagement, which...

I'm not sure that the education system, even at its highest levels, is particularly adept at teaching critical thinking. In other words, it isn't just the ostensibly "uneducated" who lack the capacity to analyze, question, and counter conventional wisdom, even when it is no wisdom at all. As...

If they haven't done so already, the police should look into why Ford made that seemingly urgent visit to the detention centre. It seems significant.

Not for the first time, I'm wondering whether the Rob Ford reign is some sort of twisted political experiment to gauge the modern electorate's tolerance for off-the-charts buffoonery and malfeasance.

Whatever you want to call them -- religions, ideologies, or elaborate self-serving rationalizations -- they definitely attract an unappealing rogues' gallery, though I appreciate your more colorful descriptors. To the extent that Rob Ford adheres to anything coherent enough to qualify as an...

Actually, many right wingers tend to gravitate to the Crowley ethos. "Do what thou wilt" is more libertine than liberal. What's more, Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, was heavily influenced by Aleister Crowley, among others. Here's what LaVey had to say about other influences that...