Kwame Update

Our beloved mayor of Detroit has been exposed as a terrible, terrible player by the Detroit Free Press. Releasing a series of erotic text messages between the mayor and his chief of staff Christine Beatty, the Free Press once again sheds light on how Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick- a married man- is a bumbling fool.

For a sitting mayor to leave a text trail suggesting an extramarital affair is dumb enough, but to text exact times and locations of their encounters- which can be cross-checked with credit cards and what not- is hilariously stupid.

The most important question, of course, is how smooth of a player is Mayor Kilpatrick?

David Deangelo is considered by many to be a guru on attracting women. According to him, a powerful tool for attracting women is to be "cocky and funny." What is "cocky and funny?"

OK, the basic formula for Cocky & Funny is to take an arrogant comment, then add humor. It's a killer combination. But the key is that it HAS TO BE FUNNY. It actually has to make others laugh.

Let's see how the mayor applies this principle

KK: They were right outside the door. They [the mayor's bodyguards] had to have heard everything...

CB: So we are officially busted! LOL

KK: LOL LOL! Damn that. Never busted. Busted is what you see! LOL. ...

CB: LOL, LOL. Damn, so they have to walk in before you conceed busted! LOL.

KK: Hell yeah. Walk in

Not bad in my opinion. Perhaps fewer LOLs could have been employed to achieve the same level of funniness. I also feel that the excessive LOLs detracted from the intended cockiness and instead contributed to a projected insecurity. Moreover, the use of a period instead of an exclamation point after "what you see" would have made the punchline a little less loud, given it a seemingly serious edge...