It’s hot, the economy’s cold and it’s time for some people to just get on out of town to avoid any further sweaty embarrassment. So the Clemency Coach is being fired up — or at least prodded into full splutter — for its summer run.

For those not familiar with this service, offered free of charge by a benevolent foundation, the Coach rolls out on four seasonal runs a year to allow people who really need to put some distance between themselves and their actions to do so. It has a proven track record of helping not only those in the seats but those left behind to come to terms with some rueful behavior.

As recently as a week ago, the summer run was in some doubt because of questions about passengers having the proper paperwork. But on the Clemency Coach, everyone is considered a little bit alien and legality has never been an issue. So it’s all aboard for another trip to nowhere in particular.

The passenger list:

•Manny Ramirez: You were never boyishly charming. You were dumb and spoiled and embarrassing. Be gone.

• That Zany Madcap Mom: You know the one. She was at the Bristol parade on the Fourth, taking a picture of her kid with a man recently released from prison. Just how does she explain that one when paging through the family photo album a few years from now?

• The News Media: There are two wars going on in which Americans are getting killed. I’m not kidding. You might want to take a look.

• Network News: All three anchors on the Obama European Wow Tour? And you wonder why people are a little bit skeptical about TV objectivity?

• George W. Bush: There is only one more run of the Clemency Coach before you leave office. You’re on for good.

•Channel 6 News: “Thug”? “Lowlife”? “Scumbag”? This is the language you use to get viewer attention? Hitting the bottom in order to rise from it, perhaps?

• The Providence School Board: Let’s see, you voted to appoint Tom Brady school superintendent at a meeting last Monday, but you really appointed him three months ago in a closed door session? What a fascinating example of open government for all those students out there in Providence schools to ponder.

• Michael Savage: Another random mouth desperately trying to rise to the top of talk show Babel, he recently declared autism a fraud and a racket and said 99 percent of autistic kids are brats who haven’t been told to cut out the act. He did not list his medical credentials in the wild ratings rant.

There is a brief delay in the boarding here as a group of people is escorted onto the bus and to that special area closed in by chicken wire and reserved on this trip for public officials behaving badly. It has been a bad season, with reports from at least two states of cars getting keyed and women getting groped and hot items in the wrong hands. The officials directed to this part of the Coach are advised to talk among themselves.

• John McCain: Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in a campaign ad? Maybe the Straight Talk Express is due for some front end alignment.

• William Irons: Let’s see, this is not easy. You’re before the Ethics Commission on conflict-of-interest charges and you’re claiming the commission can’t touch you because you were a legislator legislating when the alleged infraction occurred? And that gives you a pass? The really wacky thing is it could be legal — shameless, but legal.

• Governor Carcieri: Try talking to people, not talk radio.

• 12 Guys in Central Falls: OK, so you’re stupid and desperate, but now you’ve managed to embarrass yourselves and your families by getting caught in a hooker sting.

• Albert Arroyo: The Boston firefighter did nothing for the brotherhood of the firehouse when he made a bid for a disability pension while competing in body-building competitions.

• Stanley Kobierowski: You set a record. You allegedly showed the highest blood-alcohol level ever recorded in Rhode Island after you drove your car into that road sign on Route 95.

• The Rolling Texter: Yeah, you, the one at the wheel of the SUV, trying to look at your cell phone and the road while sending a text message in traffic. You could have killed somebody.

The Coach is full. New passengers should get acquainted with the old. There are paper fans beneath each seat. Try not to sweat.

bkerr@projo.com