I've never trusted the French, not since I sat for my first class in Madame Duvet's 6th grade Introductory French. She kept saying, "Le pouce. Le pouce." That was accompanied by a thumbs up. I didn't get it, but I just nodded my head in agreement with the old, crazy bat. From that moment on …
In Defense of Violence: Ancient Japanese/Chinese/Internet Proverbs
I often reflected on a proverb. I cannot say when I first came upon it. Maybe I read it in a translated Japanese text, or was it Mandarin? There's about a thirty-percent chance that it had Cantonese origins. Though it's more likely that it was a meme of mysterious origins (scrawled with ball-point pen on …
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On Famine Farming
I once had a garden. A dream of one before that. It was a small garden, at first. Okay, just four tomato plants that I had bought at the Home Depot. Though it consisted of four humble plants that I repotted to a larger planter, it was my garden. I watered it faithfully, and waited …
Zeke & His Toxic Pocket Monster
January 10, 2017: Matriculating at a university near you. Keep it in your safe space! Ezekiel was a mild - mannered teenager by every account. Well, he was technically and very much legally a man at 18, and thus now fully responsible and accountable for every act committed by any and every member of his …
J. Manuel 