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A Lesson in Logical Thinking

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JFK Assassination Logic:  How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy by John McAdams, Potomac Books, 2011.

I freely admit it–I’m a JFK assassination junkie and periodically get drawn into the vortex of the massive amount of material that’s out there.  You could make a full-time job out of just watching all the videos on YouTube on the subject. (Not that I’ve done that–yet!)  I can tell you Oswald’s scores on his two Marine Corps rifle tests (“sharpshooter” and “marksman”–with scores of 212 and 191, respectively), how much he weighed (150 pounds), how tall he was (5’9″), the path of the single bullet that hit Kennedy and Connally (basically straight and slanting downward), the length of the brown-paper package of so-called curtain rods that Oswald brought to work the morning of Nov. 22 (38 inches), why he bought the rifle that he

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The only person I can change . . .

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. . . is myself.

Just one more day of the old year.  I think my only resolution should be to remember that I can only make resolutions for myself.   I want to set the very highest standards for myself but refuse to apply those standards to others, to remind myself that people are (or at least may be) doing the best that they can, to carry out the description of love in I Corinthians 13:5:  “It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”  As I’ve said many, many times, I am the Queen of Grudge-Holders.  If I concentrated on just that italicized phrase all year I’d be much easier to live with.  (“If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquity, who should stand?”)

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