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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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After decades of journalists attaching the suffix "gate" to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as "Oceangate-gate"
After some thought, I've decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as "Oceangate-gate-gate"