The Mayor McCrack Show  Toronto cops say they have a video
reportedly showing Rob Ford smoking crack. But the disastrous
mayor still has a surprising base of support.  TORONTO—It’s
real. Toronto’s great civic MacGuffin is now in the hands of the
police.  It had been rumored on and off for months that police
were in possession of a video of Mayor Rob Ford appearing to
smoke crack cocaine. But no one expected the police chief to
call a press conference announcing its acquisition. Now, as Ford
again refuses to resign, Toronto’s political circus has gained
yet another ring.  And it’s kind of awesome. There’s a rush from
living through a moment that is both self-evidently historic and
brain-meltingly funny. Anything could happen! we’ve got drugs,
politics, gangs, violence, addiction, and spycraft. And the
story’s momentum constantly threatens to tip it beyond all of
those things.  Rob Ford has a history of scandals too long to
summarize in any one place. Even Wikipedia gave up attempting to
be comprehensive and ju