I feel the need to be increasingly controversial and obtuse as the days go by. Naturally, I turned my thoughts to mulch.
Mulch is one of those things that magically appeared, and once it was here we just seemed to accept it as though it belonged here. I look at public trees (as opposed to nature's trees) and wonder, "why do they need the mulch?"
I'm figuring that they really don't need it. I think it is foist upon us by well-meaning (yet greedy) landscapers (another magically appearing item) who told us that it does something good. I wonder what it actually does, since trees grew when I was a kid without mulch and they grow today with it.
What I am left with is the feeling that we are being sold something that is basically useless, yet we are told it belongs here, and we accept it.
Like the Republicans.
Mulch is one of those things that magically appeared, and once it was here we just seemed to accept it as though it belonged here. I look at public trees (as opposed to nature's trees) and wonder, "why do they need the mulch?"
I'm figuring that they really don't need it. I think it is foist upon us by well-meaning (yet greedy) landscapers (another magically appearing item) who told us that it does something good. I wonder what it actually does, since trees grew when I was a kid without mulch and they grow today with it.
What I am left with is the feeling that we are being sold something that is basically useless, yet we are told it belongs here, and we accept it.
Like the Republicans.
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Well, check with Wikipedia. They give you a lot of reasons to use that stuff.
I don't like the smell of mulch.
... but mulch was good for your punchline.
I didn't realize I was going to have a punchline until I was almost done. I think I've used that before. Probably.
I don't like the smell of Republicans either, and there aren't nearly as many uses for them as for mulch.
i like mulch. it's pretty.
Mulch allows us to recycle old pallets and carcinogenic Red Dye #2.
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