Happy Thursday! It's all going to be okay! Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis The New York Times did a nice feature on Kareem Serageldin, the only top banker to go to jail for the financial crisis (I assume ...read more

Ever since Rob Ford first rochambeaued his way into the world's heart a month or so ago, one tragedy has been lamented over and over again by millions: the fact that Chris Farley isn't alive to play Ford in a movie. There have been a couple of attempted Farley-Ford mash-ups so ...read more

"Typical media. You guys are all the same. You're all cut from the same cloth. You can spin it any way you want." -- Toronto Mayor, late-night punchline, and heart-attack-waiting-to-happen Rob Ford during an interview with CNN's Bill Weir I come from Miami, where the general ...read more

Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mailbag, where the staff here at Banter respond to reader questions about politics, the media, and apparently now crack cocaine.... We're still without Bob Cesca (no doubt sunning himself on a tropical island after getting ...read more

Gawker wants you to pay for a video of Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smoking crack cocaine. Writes John Cook: As you may have heard, Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack cocaine. We've seen a video of him smoking crack cocaine, and the people who have the video would ...read more