Now that blogs are dead and everything is apps, even the great American political tradition of Capitol Hill staffers anonymously gossiping about each other (and the interns) has had to adjust: Enter Cloakroom—Yik Yak for Congress.

Today, Slate's Jack Shafer admits that he loves Secretary of Defense Robert Gates—almost as much as Gates hearts the press! Looks to us like it was a smooth move this summer when Gates hired ABC News correspondent Geoff Morrell as the press secretary at the Pentagon. Please send all pix of the inevitable toilet-papering of Morrell's house by his former colleagues in the Washington press corps right to us.