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| Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:08 PM PST |
| Don't laugh at Toronto's mayor Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:24 PM PST If you're not Canadian, chances are you have never been as acutely aware of the political happenings of that country as you are now. Rob Ford, the embattled and out-of-control mayor of Toronto, has made sure of that, with his erratic behavior blazing across our screens more boldly and brightly than the reddest maple leaf that nation has ever produced. Ford's booze-soaked stunts and possibly drug-driven debacles -- now feeding the tabloids and late night talk shows more meat than they could digest in a year -- are probably nothing you haven't read about, talked about, thought about, or, unfortunately, laughed about. But what you might not have thought about is this: You know this man. You know and respect this man. He works with you. He works for you. He lives next door to you. He's related to you. He might even be you. He is, in fact, everywhere. And there's nothing funny about it. Oftentimes functioning at levels you would never expect from someone with an addiction, the Rob Ford in your life is trying your case, prescribing your medication, running your company, investing your money, flying your plane and governing your city. And guess what? He or she is doing it from the grips of a progressive disease, making it look easy until, well, one day it suddenly looks horrible. I know -- I've been there. Was my own powerful reckoning with alcohol as excruciatingly documented and publicly consequential? Mercifully, no. Not even close. Could it have been, under different circumstances? Yes, perhaps. When you laugh at the mayor of Toronto, you are laughing at the struggles of countless people like him that you'll never know about. People who you otherwise admire and sometimes even vote for. You see, the biggest difference between Mayor Ford and millions of other alcoholics and addicts who have built a successful career isn't that his behaviors are so much more shocking, it's that his are alone in the center of a spotlight, on full display like the unsightly scar most of us are able to keep private. And he's the mayor of one of the largest cities in North America. But if you dim that light and pause those digital recorders, you'll see the mayor is not alone. He's surrounded. Surrounded by a vast sea of others shrouded in the same, strong, delusional fog of denial. A fog that's born from the marriage of disease and diploma, sickness and success. And, you're surrounded by them, too. Hiding in plain sight, addicted yet outwardly successful professionals are a carefully disguised contradiction. We don't have a problem with our drinking. Other people have a problem with their drinking. You know, the type of people who couldn't do half of what we've done. The people who couldn't even get our job, let alone do it. Those people. Even when startling evidence to the contrary begins piling up, as it so clearly has with Mayor Ford, we stick to our story and cling to our capabilities. To paraphrase the mayor, if we were alcoholics, we couldn't show up to work every day. Could we? Yes. And we do. Until the bitter end and long after the other relationships in our lives have tanked, we suit up and show up. We're professionals. And as long as we've got that, we're not alcoholics. We're not addicts. Or so our inner monologue goes. But, if you pierce through that devastatingly convincing argument we sell ourselves, and you, each of us is a walking bundle of profound denial, tightly bound up by an impressive tailored suit, spotless lab coat or an elegant black robe. |
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| Photos: Infamous serial killers Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:47 AM PST |
| How to win on 'The Price is Right' Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST Remember being a kid, stuck home from school because you were sick, and "The Price is Right" would come on? I was that kid, and Ben Blatt was that kid, too. The difference between us is that when I was choosing college classes by their attendance policy, Blatt graduated from Harvard with a degree in applied math -- and then used what he learned to figure out how to win at "The Price is Right." |
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| Rob Ford (according to Rob Ford) Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:36 AM PST |
| 'Duck Dynasty' gets boy in trouble Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:05 AM PST |
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| Dad: Son's body on Google Maps Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:25 PM PST |
| Man dies trying to set free diving record Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:24 AM PST |
| Six people killed in tornado outbreak Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:40 AM PST |
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| Russian jetliner crash kills 50 Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:04 AM PST |
| Tragic video shows plane nosedive Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST |
| Education Sec. slammed for comment Posted: 18 Nov 2013 12:49 PM PST |
| Lion kills a lioness at Dallas Zoo Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:23 AM PST |
| Europe's most active volcano erupts over Sicily. Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:45 AM PST |
| Lady Gaga's racy 'SNL' peformance Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST |
| Workout videos help on 200-pound loss Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:08 AM PST |
| Seconds away from plunging off cliff ... Posted: 18 Nov 2013 05:47 AM PST |
| 3 medical marvels saving lives Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:04 AM PST |
| Distraction: Wild flight with dolphins Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:04 AM PST |
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| Drone shows shocking typhoon devastation Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:34 AM PST |
| Ford says he didn't lie about crack use Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:45 AM PST |
| Drone shows shocking typhoon devastation Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:34 AM PST |
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| Mother: I wish I were dead, too Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:04 AM PST |
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| Typhoon a PR gold mine for U.S. military Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:01 AM PST |
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