The One With Aldacron

It’s been nearly a year since I’ve handed out a Moron of the Week award. Part of the reason is that I don’t keep up with as broad a variety of news as I used to. But I just read about a moron in Alabama who is so deserving of this title that I had to bring it out and dust it off.

Moron of the Week #9 is a man so moronic, he brings down the intelligence of everyone around him. He demonstrates a brand of logic that is indisputably illogical. His understanding of the United States Constitution, something he should be expected to know a bit about given that he’s a public official, might be called ‘willful misinterpretation’. He’s a firm believer that America is a Christian nation. So as mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Larry Langford’s solution to the city’s crime problem is to have the people don sackcloths and pray.

Yes, sackcloths. And ashes. To pray. Exactly what you would expect a city mayor to do in the year 2008 to keep his citizens safe from rising crime. I guess he had to one up Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia, who didn’t put on a sackcloth when he led a prayer for rain. Yes, Mayor Langford, you win.

I humbly bestow upon Mayor Larry Langford, of Birmingham, Alabama, the honorable title of Moron of the Week #9. Congratulations, Mayor! May you wear it proudly. You surely deserve it.

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