Some of his other activities—well…they appear to be something else entirely.”“Maybe not,” Dad chimed in, “but that rat who did all the dir...y work should be strung up.”“No…he’s been out of work and was about to lose everything.”“That may be true, Sean, but we already knew about the endorsements. Isn’t there something else you wanted to tell us?” Mom was nothing if not persistent.Under other circumstances I would have laughed my ass off, but Mom was so serious. She wanted to confirm that. ” Jack grinned at this, and I set my beer bottle down on the table. I undid the zipper to my windbreaker and peeled it off nonchalantly. I straightened up and picked up my beer bottle and glanced over it at Jack.The effect was electrifying! Jack swallowed and stared at my chest. His mouth flapped a couple of times, and then he got his voice. “You did it!” He looked up at me with a gleam in his eyes. “You really did it!”“Did what, Jack?” I teased, batting my eyes at him.He took another swallow. She felt so good in my arms that I didn’t want to go to dinner, but we eventually locked the apartment and I held her door for her, helping her up into the truck, since her heels weren’t meant for the climb.I stole frequent glances at her as we stopped at lights, but I turned into a hawk when the light turned green. I’d learned about distractions while driving. She could see the anxiety in my body language and the look she gave me when we parked at the restaurant was sympathetic.I smiled and. I embraced my new found freedom by assuming the rank of general in my Pal’s pet e-revolution, waging war & felling empires from the comfort of cramped & shadowed office basements. There is no inoculation against nonsense, no vaccine for silly, see- as a species’ common sense disintegrates through quickening entropy, mystery meme transmitting digital sickness throughout, utter lunacy eventually washes over the masses & any who stubbornly cling to the old ways. ALL will be assimilated into.