Rosie DiManno writes a really weird column begrudging Rob Ford’s weight loss

With the wall-to-wall coverage of TTC boss Gary Webster’s firing, you might have missed another story coming out of city hall yesterday: Rob Ford dropped another two pounds. The mayor’s dieting success attracted the attention of Toronto Star columnist—and frequent target of derision—Rosie DiManno, who resents that “weight is dropping off [Ford] like melting snow sliding off a roof.” DiManno shares details of her own effort to lose weight—poundage, she calls it—a struggle that’s involved depression, dieting and a diagnosis of exercise-induced asthma. Of course, we don’t hold DiManno’s honesty against her. We do, however, take issue with passages like this one: “[Men] down-size immediately by just swearing off potatoes or holding the line at one lunch-time martini. I glance covetously at a chocolate bar and can’t do up my zipper. While my arse goes sideways, my tunic tops creep south. I’m thinking…burqa.” Wait, a burqa? We thought she hated those. Read the entire story [Toronto Star] »

(Images: Rob Ford, Christopher Drost; Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star; scales, Brenda Clarke)