Bond: So, the Americans have wet the bed again. M: I’m afraid so, 007. They’re calling it “SignalGate.” Bond: If the Americans insist on calling every scandal “Something-Gate,” they ought to get interesting about it. Politician secretly pays off a woman to carry his wife’s baby: SurroGate. Corruption on a failed dam-building contract: FloodGate. M: Their national security advisor conducted a text chat among principals, on a commercial service, about a military strike, and mistakenly included a journalist. Bond: The CIA waterboards a suspect to death and surreptitiously buries the body: InterroGate. Which principals? M: The usual suspects. National Security…
Author: Andy Shocket
Andy Shocket
Andy Schocket is a historian, writer, and proud union member. He lives in the banana republic known as “Ohio.”
Day 1 Well, this blows chunks. Here I am, less than a year old, and Mother gone. Fuckin’ Man. Not many visitors in the morning, but after noon the whole rabbit mishpocha arrives. ”Shiva?” Thumper’s cousin Hopper asks. “Sitting around and doing nothing for a week after somebody croaks?” How can Hopper not see Frog, like, right across from him? If looks could kill, the glare Frog gives Hopper would have the Rabbit family sitting shiva, too. Aunt Ena brought some choice buds to nosh on. The Pheasants brought a bunch of shoots. Mrs. Raccoon, a nice spread of small…