I was talking with a friend about the whole "Kurt Angle defecting to the Alliance" storyline... he raised a potential plot point that wouldn't save the WWF from accusations of bad booking... but it would bring a shred of sense to otherwise senseless storytelling:

What if this defection is nothing but a swerve, a way of pulling the wool over Austin's eyes, leading to Kurt switching back at the worst time?

I guess we'll find out in a few weeks.