Rose's Cantina

#90746365 / gettyimages.com Put me in coach/I'm ready to play today Look at me/I can be centerfield We in the country of Canada are grateful that the addiction experts up in Muskoka were able to patch up Mayor Rob Ford and send him back to civilization. As he has admitted, he's still blonde and he's still an addict. Will be for the rest of his life. But hey, he's dropped a little weight. Look he went to Moore's to buy a few smaller suits. And he's recognized, finally, that he has a disease. So, Mayor Ford. Are you a homophobe? No, that was my disease. Are you a criminal, cheat and liar? No, that was my disease. I've seen the light, brother. I've seen the light. We'd like to think that Rob Ford gained insight in that very expensive rehab facility. Nuh, uh. He simply found another scapegoat. Before, he blamed the Toronto Star, or Chief Blair. Now he blames his disease. To quote Geraldine, the debo made him do it. Rob...

The first thing you must do, when recovering from a life-threatening and career-ending addiction, is to try to gain insight into your own life. This is not terribly easy and even people who have successfully rehabbed often don't have the capacity to gain insight. You see these guys in lots of AA meetings. They've successfully won the battle against addiction but they haven't won the war. They're still dysfunctional schlubs and idiots who have traded one addiction -- booze, pills, sex -- for another (AA). Acquiring insight doesn't mean listening to what friends and family have to say. Friends and family are working their own agendas. Rather, it means looking at yourself frankly, digging deep into the root causes of your addiction and pulling up those roots and planting new flowers. People who aren't addicts don't have a clue. Even with years of training and observing addicted rats, the medical professionals are not any closer to finding a cure for ...