Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

If you can't trust your government, then who can you trust?  The me-
  

    
-re idea that they would lie to us is completely en-
  

    
couraging to the conpiracy nuts. Why, they even think Che-
  

    
chnya's secretly owned by JFK, who didn't die but in fact has been hi-
  

    
jacked to another planet. That makes us the al-
  

    
leged co-conspirators, because we should have sent a spaceship to
retrieve him. We need JFK now more than ev-
  

    
erett Dirkson, but any of the statesmen of past generations would be
better than the empty po-
  

    

tentates of today's fi-
  

    
nancial planning Web sites, who vi-
  

    
tuperate about "big government" while happily manipulating the s-
  

    
ite so that the Well becomes a one-trick pony, with only one real top-
  

    
ic that is linked to all the conferences.  We tried that a few years a-
  

    
fter Bill Clinton ousted the first George Bush, but there was too much
di-
  

    
gital interferance. Then we tried having two topics, one for the nice
people, and one for the mean, bitchy ty-
  

    
rants who opened a third topic just to post their bo-
  

    
tox-tightened prose, but that just evolved into more st-
  

    
icky wickets for the management, who did their best to keep or-
  

    
ganized labor at bay.   The hiring of scab labor has be-
  

    
come a major wedge issue in this election cycle, as Republican G-
  

    
phers chew up Democrat putters as well as wedges, in their quest for
the pr-
  

    
ivate conferences on The WELL that are devoted to that problem. Typing o-
  

    

ntological cartwheels into the aether sounds so much better when one has a
multitude of topics, conferences, and pseudonyms to use. Why else d-
  

    
id <puffball> become immortalized in Well lore? Of course it was
because <puffball> was the first Wellpern to ever post about nu-
  

    
trition's importance in the pursuit of the perfect bo-
  

    
wling score.  One can only approach three hu-
  

    
morists with great caution, lest one of them loose a barrage of j-