So I wanted to point out that Rocket Mania on Yahoo!games is racist, but fun. Like me, on a good day.

I am told that it is Asian American Heritage Month, or maybe just Asian Heritage Month, or something. In any case, it is thus appropriate that I offer for the next 12 days a daily Mock Chinese Parable, in the spirit of the old four-character chengyu into which I was supposed to be indoctrinated. It didn't quite take, as many of those characters are archaic and useful mostly for chengyu not daily fried chicken negotiations.

So I present:

The Left Side of Heaven

In ancient times, it was customary for travelers on country paths to walk on the left side of the road. If they happened to encounter one another it was further customary, if one of the parties was a priest, for the other party to step to the side of the road and respectfully wait for the other to pass. Now it happened one day that a farmer by the name of Ha was walking on market when he encountered two priests, both paused by the side of the road, each waiting for each to pass, like Manilov and Chichikov trying to enter the drawing room. His chickens growing agitated and his vegetables wilting, Ha walked in between them both.