Roderick, that’s what I’ve been trying to say — that ”lone gunman” adds up (esp in light of the most recent work on the so-called magic bullet’s actual trajectory), except for Ruby.

The fact that this guy shoots the president, and then gets assassinated himself in the police station on live tv by someone as hairy as Ruby — just throws the whole thing into crazyland 2.0. His rationale, his emotional condition, all the explanations given, are just too lite — they don’t ring true — there’s too big a gap between the power those motivations would reasonably generate, and the act itself.

It’s akin to those Buddhist monks in 60s Vietnam who set themselves on fire to protest the government — acts of maximum, supreme selflessness by ascetics for whom principle had conquered basic instinct.

But hell, what do i know — maybe Ruby was just nuts.