Okay, I'll explain it again. Try to pay attention this time! It's the wheel bearings that you grease, not the trailer hitch. You might shoot a little WD-40 on the hitch to keep it from rusting but, if you put grease on it, it will just attract dirt, which will get all over your hands when you go to hitch up the trailer to your pickup truck. That said, some trailer hitches have a screw jack on them to raise the hitch to the level of the ball on your truck. There is probably some grease in there but, if you cover the mechanism with a five gallon pail when you're not using it, and shoot a little WD-40 in there once or twice a year, you should never have to take it apart and grease it. The wheel bearings, on the other hand, are the weak link in the system. I suppose, if they made them better, the water wouldn't get in, but then they would be harder to grease and more expensive to replace. As it is, they are not that hard to maintain, and not even that hard or expensive to change out. It's just one of those things that any self respecting practical sportsman should know how to do for himself.
Fred Trost was kind of rough around the edges for a TV personality, I suppose that's why I liked him. Most of the people you see on TV are so slick and polished that you wonder what they're like in real life, or if they even have a real life. Fred was a regular person, or at least he acted like one on his show. Truth be known, we don't know what he was like in real life either, but I like to think that he was the same. I was impressed when he got his law degree too. I only recently learned that he actually practiced law for awhile. Most lawyers are pretty slick themselves but, once in awhile, you get a maverick type like Fred. It must drive the slick lawyers nuts when a guy like Fred wins a case. I don't think he'd be that good with a jury because juries run on emotion as much as they do on logic. A judge, on the other hand, is a legal professional. If you haul out the law book and show him where it says that you're right, it seems like he would have to rule in your favor whether he liked you or not. Otherwise you might get his ruling overturned on an appeal, and I don't suppose judges like to be over ruled like that.
I think that what they were calling the "polar vortex" last year is the jet stream. There are actually two jet streams, the polar jet and the subtropical jet. The one we usually see on the TV weather maps is the polar one. There are usually dips in it. When it dips north, it's called a "ridge", and when it dips south, it's called a "trough". Sometimes it does straighten out for awhile, which is called a "zonal flow". The jet stream is the main dividing line between warm weather and cold weather. Come to think of it, maybe that's what causes the jet stream. The cold air pushing down from the north runs into the warm air pushing up from the south, and the Earth's rotation puts a spin on it. Remember the Coriolis effect?
You know, I don't believe I ever heard the term "islamofascist" until I heard it from you. I agree that it's kind of a stupid word. Maybe we should ask those Unicorn Hunters to ban it next year, if they haven't already.
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