A Pointless Aside: Coleman vs. Kwame

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Some of you may be aware of the current Detroit debacle. The city's foundering financially, literally on the brink of bankruptsy in a way that looks bad even from Flint, and in the midst of this, Mayor Kwayme Kilpatric is taking a lot of (well-deserved) flak for covering up a loadedluxurysuv the city bought for his wife.

The mysterious writer of Detroit Blog calls to mind the "good ol' days" of Coleman Young, who was to Detroit what J. Daley came to be to Chicago. When criticized for flouting the expensive blue Cadillac in which he was chauferred throughout the city, Young replied, "You want a Cadillac mayor, you buy him a Cadillac."

While the Socialist in me chafes at this sort of logic (the same logic that allowed Flint Mayor Don Williamson to repave his own street when most of the ciy sports potholes you could house families in), I find it infinitely preferable to Kilpatrick's lies and posturing.

About as preferable, frankly, as a Cadillac is to a Lincoln Navigator.

~ Connor