The Idle AmericanSome quotes linger, often for no reason. They may stand alone, bringing up the rear when other thoughts are locked in – safe for the night – in literature’s OK Corral. Yet, they are “ear-catching,” hard to shake when minds are in neutral gear.Retired football coaching great Jimmie Keeling recently provided an eight-word pronouncement. It’s a quote I wish had been mine: “If it’s not the washer, it’s the dryer.” How true for a world with built-in obsolescence, delays in shipments and whimpering excuses for items – always on the shelf historically – now are in the backwash ...