Jennifer Roberts has a good sense of humor, if her latest scheme is any indication. As Commission chair, Roberts needs for members of the Commission to get along — at least well enough that meetings don’t turn into the kind of weird and snotty hate-fests we’ve seen lately. There are, after all, a few problems these fine professionals need to address, beyond their dislike for each other. Roberts has taken an innovative, and potentially hilarious, approach: She is threatening to put her unruly collection of dueling egos through “team building” exercises. As someone who has suffered through such corporate foolishness, I can tell you that I would agree to nearly anything — a cut in pay, a lead pipe to the shins, renting out a room to Glenn Beck, you name it — rather than engage in such quasi-new-agey nonsense again. Please, just don’t make me catch somebody that I can’t stand as he is falling backward. Or run in a three-legged race with the person who does her best to make my job a living hell. Or have to come up with a serviceable lie just so I can tell the moron down the hall that he’s basically a good guy.  If the County Commissioners know what “team building” is usually like, it's a cinch that they’ll promise to behave and stay as calm as lambs at future meetings.

Honestly — team building? With this current County Commission crew? Please. I can just imagine Vilma Leake’s head exploding as she tries to think of one good thing to say about Bill James. I can see James yelling “Oops!” as he accidentally lets George Dunlap fall backward and bang his head on the floor. And I can’t wait to hear all about Jim Pendergraph whacking County Manager Harry Jones with a nerf bat, and screaming, “No more bonuses for you, Cap’n!” Seriously, I can’t wait to hear about that last one.

One of the main problems with “team building,” other than it being a silly pain in the butt for those involved, is that sometimes, no matter what you do, the various “parts” of a team won’t fit together. Plus, for a team to be built, don’t you need to work with parts that are actually worth building into a team? The verdict is out on whether the current batch of commissioners could ever fit that bill.

• Bill and Vilma go at it after he called her son "a homo." Imagine these two in team building exercises.