THE THREE STUPIDS

It seems that, for once, we are all in agreement. Yes, the three black basketball players who got locked up in China for stealing sun glasses were indeed stupid, there is no other way to explain this kind of bizarre behavior. That, however, is not the question we should be asking. The real unanswered question is "How the hell did they get within a thousand miles of an esteemed institution like UCLA" and "Why did The Donald lift a finger to bail their sorry asses out of that Chinese prison? The answer to the first question is simple. Our venerated centers of higher learning will do anything for money and these three buffoons represent money every time they set their size 18 shoes on a basketball court, at least when the TV cameras are running. To associate these three shop-lifters with any institution of higher learning is, of course, absurd, but that's the way it is at today's money grubbing Universities. Why Trump bothered to intervene is a more troubling question for which there is no good answer. Maybe the president wanted sweep this national embarrassment under the rug as soon as possible and believed this was the best way to cut our losses and move on, or maybe he had other motives that escape me. In any case, this decision was a major blunder on his part. These three dummies should have been left to rot in that Chinese prison and UCLA should be suspended from all collegiate sports for at least a year, maybe longer. Sorry, I don't suffer fools lightly. Now for this week's question, what is the difference between Red Wiggler composting earthworms and night crawlers? Basically there are two different types of earthworms. The small composing Red Wigglers are the same the world over. These creatures, which most commonly are found in manure piles, are surface dwellers who live in the top six or so inches of the soil. On the other hand, there are hundreds of different varieties of night-crawlers. These large worms are primarily used as fish bait and usually are named after the regions they inhabit. They live in holes deep in the ground and make their way to the surface in the fall after the first rains, where they forage for food and form characteristic piles of worm castings that look like miniature volcanoes. Although relatively small in volume, these piles of worm droppings are pure casting unlike the ones produced by composting earthworm which are mixed into the soil they inhabit. In any case, night-crawlers do little or nothing to enhance the soil in which they live, primarily because there are so few of them. The castings of composting Red Wigglers, on the other hand, are the richest organic fertilizer known to man and are a primary ingredient of any organic garden.