I was among the apparent many who received unsolicited mystery seeds from China. At first, I figured that I was simply big in China, since I annually pay that nation’s electric bill through my purchasing of countless gadgets and gizmos that arrive considerably smaller and highly less efficient than the infomercials and Facebook ads professed.
Regarding the mystery seeds, I saw that our Homeland Security sleuths had it on something analogous to good authority that these unordered growths-in-waiting could harbor genetically-modified plant life, possibly qualifying as the seeds of agri-terrorism…
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