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A History of Formal Complaints Against Rob Ford

Ford's last hurrah?

Ford to leave council meetings forever as he entered the world, screaming and gesturing?

In what could be his last council meeting as Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford got into a shouting match with councillor Adam Vaughan over developer fees on Thursday.

But there is a surprising twist

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was cleared today to run again for mayor in a byelection, should one be held ahead of the 2014 municipal election.

Good news on the Romney Front

Romney ran a campaign successful in every way save the trifling technicality of actually winning and attracted a majority of the good votes.

Curse you, Alien Worlds

The current story is a _three parter_.

I am sure there is story potential in this

[Tau Ceti] has a mean galacto-centric distance of 9.7 kiloparsec (32,000 ly) and an orbital eccentricity of 0.22.

Which means the ratio between Tau Ceti's minimum distance to the core and its maximum distance is, I think, about .64.

From an old post

Funny, I was just thinking about a superhero universe where the dominant model for how teams are recruited and supported is Celtic vs Rangers.

Or Maple Leafs versus Canadiens, but in that case the Toronto team of supers would combine comparative ineptitude with impressive profitability and there'd be at least some discussion whether the Anaheim Justice Bunch really counts as a bone fide superhero team or whether only the six original groups of crime-punchers are genuine.

(Gary Bettman as the Commissioner of the League of Legions of Superheros: comment. Feel free to use Tiger and Bunny as a possible model)

And another ICONS character I will never play

This one is one of those embarrassing legacy characters, like Son of Santa:

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