There’s a character on Ricky Gervais’s brilliant British sitcom “The Office” who constantly refers to himself as “Assistant Regional Manager,” and is quickly corrected by his boss, who says he is actually “assistant to the regional manager.” This is eerily like Michael Brown’s resume problem. He said he was “asssistant city manager” in Edmond, Okla. when he was in fact “assistant to the city manager.” The character on “The Office” is a semi-malevolent clown. I leave it to you to decide what Brown is.