In rebuttal to the recent exodus of employees from his government, Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, has chosen a new deputy chief and chief of staff. After a rigorous and exhausting hiring process, the two people who applied for the positions were selected, based on very specific criteria that Ford insisted on. Toronto’s mayor allegedly directed city staff to find ‘suitable’ employees with a minimum of the following qualifications:
- Number of teeth must directly correlate to their IQ.
- Completed at least one year in kindergarten
- Strong connections to ‘reputable’ drug dealers
- Incapable of even remembering their home address
Oscar O’Toole (left) was chosen as the chief of staff, while his younger brother, Billy O’Toole, became the deputy chief of staff. Both are seen here posing for the media after officially assuming their new roles.
Father’s Day for me is both one of sadness and of joy, as I remember my incredible father. Due to a number of issues, we really never had a chance to experience the whole ‘father and son’ thing, and the result is that there will forever be a hollow place in my heart that only he could have filled. He was a remarkable man, with a remarkable story that he was slow to tell, and his passing changed me from a boy into a man, but maybe not quite in the way that you might be thinking.
Crayola has been famous for their wide color spectrum of art devices since 1903, so you’d think the ability to see the full color spectrum would be a prerequisite for the job. But, just like that English teacher who never learned how to read, a man, who, in his thirty seven year career at Crayola, spanning 1.4 billion crayons, surprised everyone when he announced that he had been colorblind the entire time. 
