The Schatterman E-mails
This is a short story I wrote many years ago, long before Trump's funding cuts for research, but it seems more timely now than it was back in the 1980s when I wrote it (originally the format was memos rather than e-mails.): By John MacBeath Watkins In the beginning was the e-mail, and the e-mail was with Zorba and the e-mail was about Zorba. All were made by him and without him were not made any who were made. In him was life; and the life was the light of us all. And the e-mail said: To: CliveWallroose@BigLabs.com From: Ivan_Peckerwood_Schatterman_III@BigLabs.com Re: Annoying results of experiments by Zorba the Geek Clive, I have had enough. Zorba Papadopolis is mooning over the little monkeys he has produced as if the world needed nothing more desperately than smaller monkeys. I am doing important work, which, by the way, is fully funded by the Department of Defense, while Zorba's work is simply a drain on our resources. His so-called "children...
