Hawk On Fire

If you're smart enough to read between the lines of that Florida face-eating story ( right ), and the grusome details of the bloody foot left at the Conservative Party's offices in Ottawa, you've already destroyed the staircases in your house while surrounding yourself with rifles and long-handled axes. If you were gullible enough to buy that bath salts explanation, maybe the above list of recent violent assaults (assembled by some nameless person in Australia and I didn't bother to fact-check it in the slightest) will convince you: the zombie horde cometh. Aim for the head. Update 1: Now do you believe me ? This has gotta stop . Update 2: I mean seriously . Update 3: This has got to stop .  Update 4: Not again .

Last week, a Toronto Star reporter was caught around Rob Ford’s Etobicoke home trying to get a possible lead for a story that involved Ford’s property. How ironic. But the lengths of Journalism between what is right and what is wrong was brought up because Mr. Dale was caught “snooping” around the Ford home – somewhere where he wasn’t invited. Whether or not Dale was on Ford’s actual property is immaterial to me. It may be crucial in the court of law, but in the court of public opinion, Ford was (for once) in the right. It’s true the Star went to the mayor’s house to add to an important story on Ford's attempted purchase of a parcel of land next to his property. But there are quite a few details here that don’t work in the newspaper's favour.  First . There was no reason to show up unannounced. This was not supposed to be “gotcha journalism.” Since it was legal and above board, the professional approach would be to let the mayor’s handlers know in advance. ...