Recycling…or, “What’s Good Enough For Obama Is Good Enough For Me”

I figured since the current presiding officer of the Office of the President-Elect – whatever THAT means (boy, talk about manufacturing importance!) – can recycle the Carter and Clinton administrations with his old and stale selections for his Cabinet positions (change you can count on? Yeah, right!), then I can recycle old material, too.

And, no, I do not think I could write a more convoluted sentence than the one above. So, don’t even bring it up.

Speaking about hope and change, however, it’s time again for Cleveland Browns fans to hope for change. It has been for most of the year. However, I stumbled upon this old post I did on my personal blog, almost two years to the day. Never in a decade did I think it would apply again. However, after having the privilege of attending last week’s fiasco against the Houston Texans, hearing about the guffaws of the General Manager, and observing the overall ineptness of the Head Coach and his staff, I think it applies in full.

• Braylon Edwards no longer pushes around his quarterback, he just can’t catch a football.  That’s like me, as a project manager, not managing projects.
• Charlie Frye is long gone, but the QB position in general is lacking due to injury, and poor performance by the QBs, the offensive line and the play callers.
• Romeo is Romeo.  At least “Manny being Manny” got the Red Sox two World Series Championships.  Romeo being Romeo is like asking if water is wet.

And to think, this issue exists with the same Head Coach (Romeo Crennel) and the same General Manager (Phil Savage). I want a change I can believe in. Mr. I-think-I’m-the-incoming-president-so-I’ll-make-up-a-stupid-title-for-myself won’t do it. He and his pawns in the Legislature (or did I get that reversed?) want us to re-live the fun times called the 70s. You remember, manufactured gas shortages and hunker-down-cuz-we’re-doomed thinking. That won’t float in my book. Maybe Randy Lerner, owner of the Cleveland Browns, will do it. I think he should take some cues from the ownership, management and coaches over at the Cleveland Cavaliers.

You may be saying, “But, editor, there are so many other idiots in the world doing truly terrible things. Why not write about them?” I cannot and will not attempt to make humor out of significant events such as what happened in India or where people’s personal lives are truly decimated. My hope is that, even with the idiots, they can turn things around and not become fodder for the next go-round. Obviously, my home football team can’t learn the lessons. Doh!

Would You Like Some Fries With That?

Between politicians of all stripes and the Cleveland Browns continuing saga – oops, if it were a saga, it might actually be worth following – I could change the award to Idiot of the Day. However, being an equal opportunist – believing in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome – I decided to stay away from the messes we all know and love.

Have y’all heard about the idiot that left his cell phone in a McDonalds?

Yes, he got it back. But not after the little snoopers at McDonalds decided to navigate the pics on his cell phone.

And ogle a couple of them, of his naked wife. (Read the article here.) Then post them on the internet.

And he thought the employees would leave the phone alone. Yeah, right. That’s like the fox guarding the henhouse. Teenage boys (and girls) with someone else’s cell phone? Knowing that they are to hold the phone until the owner gets there?

I guess the customer got served all right. Just how dumb can you be. Keep it in the bedroom…and close the door!

The dumb man from Arkansas is my Idiot of the Week.

Oh, and for those who care: the Romeo Crennel / Phil Savage extermination watch officially started today. I think we’re at six days til liftoff with Romeo, and the Savage cleansing will occur the day after the Cleveland Browns season from hell ends. (Note: the linked article is worthless, other than to give some context.) The local afternoon talk radio personality had much more to say about it – and with higher quality information – than the Browns beat reporters did.

Halves and Half-nots

This past week was intensely busy.  Not only are all the lemmings voting for the Presidential candidates that cause the greatest emotional lift in them, but the Cleveland Browns have decided that, yes, they really do stink, and yes, Ohio’s Secretary of State really does know how to facilitate a squirrelly election cycle.

So many idiots, so little time.  Indeed!

Instead of picking a winner this week, I have one question to ask:  Did you vote for the half-black, or the half-Republican for President of the United States?