I remember sometime after the Warren report, Cronkite did a show on whether Oswald could have done it. One of the objections at the time was that the shot sequence was impossible to pull off.
II recall correctly, Oswald was an expert marksman, and by that I mean achieved an "expert" rating on a rifle range, which, I can tell you from experience, is not stunningly difficult.
Anyway, one of the things Cronkite did was get a couple of folks who had achieved such a rating, and see if they could accurately reproduce the shot sequence with the same type and condition rifle. It took them a little practice, but they could.
NPR had a piece on yesterday implying that Johnson had something to do with it. His descendants should sue.
"Looking at a world where the economy is probably going to be tightening up for a while"
A fairly short while, I think. We're at the cusp of an energy
production shift, and it's going to be huge - the ball is already
rolling. The age of the Douglass-Martin sunscreen is being ushered in
before our eyes. At least three companies I know of are getting the
price of solar down to below that of coal for electricity - one of them
claims (I think correctly) that a Vermont-sized chunk of Arizona would
suffice to power 90% of the US power-grid, including in that
calculation a significant transition to electric cars.
But long or short, I think the right criterion for deep value is not
the stuff we dream of keeping, but the stuff we actually keep. My house
is 125 years old, and with a modicum of care, will last another 125,
easily. I've hung around some of my best friends for over thirty years,
and I don't expect that to end anytime soon. The system of government
I've been fond of all my life has taken some hits recently, but I'm
hopeful it will bounce back.
Perhaps I just find revealed preferences a better guide than stated ones.
A fair amount of golden age science fiction doesn't have real bad guys. In the Foundation trilogy, for example, everything's a psychohistorical force, rather than good and evil. Lots of Heinlein's shorter stuff (The Man Who Travelled in Elephants and Waldo both come to mind), it's more about one person's condition than good vs. evil. In Murray Leinster's First Contact, I think the presumption is that everyone's a good guy.
I would have to see the site before proclaiming the pedestrian an idiot. I walked in the country a lot when I was a kid - and there were plenty of places where "in the lane of traffic" was the only real option. A raised roadbed with a sharp drop-off into aggressive undergrowth is one example that would force country strollers into the roadway.
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