And by all means, "pay no attention to that man behind the screen!"

I have had the intellectually challenged ask me if I thought that 9/11 was brought about by a conspiracy. "It sure seems so," I have replied. "I have been told that nineteen men conspired to hijack airliners and crash them into buildings. That sure sounds like a conspiracy to me. Now, then, if there are no conspiracies, then a whole lot of energy has been spent trying to convince us that these nineteen guys did this. Wouldn't that explanatory effort suggest a conspiracy?"

What such people like to imagine is that "bad" people conspire, but "good" people don't and, therefore, since "we" are "good" people, nobody on "our" side would ever conspire to do evil things . . . only the "bad" people would do that.

I have always embraced the sentiments of my late friend, Chris Tame: "I am not interested in conspiracy theories. I am only interested in the facts of conspiracies."