And so the Alderaanian dollar floated free, allowing the Rebellion to print as much currency as it wanted to overthrow the Empire and stimulate the economy of the New Republic to undreamt of heights of prosperity. Until the day the galactic real estate bubble burst, and the Senate voted to bail out the Corellian…

I would also think that boiling the water first would take care of the problem, if you don't have purified/distilled water handy.

I think the extension to immigration holds logically — again, it's nothing qualitatively about immigrants, and doesn't mean that there's nothing good about them, but if a higher average age reduces crime, and immigration brings down the average age, then naturally immigration tends to crime.

What about the "graying of America" as a factor? Crime is mostly a pastime of young whippersnappers, and potentially the same demographics that are undermining Social Security are lowering the crime rate.

So apparently Fuller wanted to do an Addams Family reboot, but couldn't get the rights?

I expect that the claimed "200 to 500 kiloton" yield is a typo, or grossly exaggerated. That would be 10 to 20+ times more powerful than the nukes dropped on Hiroshima (or used in the famous Bikini atoll tests), and as powerful as most of the individual strategic thermonuclear warheads in the US and Russian arsenals…

I agree. My own experiences have been similarly specific. They also haven't necessarily occurred in places that should have been new to me. I've experienced deja vu in my own home, as silly as that sounds — the distinction is the sense that you've experienced the same moment in time, identical in every way to the…

After dropping it they rang the doorbell and ran.

I'm not sure about that (you'd think he would have marketed them as stimulants if he'd wanted to encourage that sort of business), but this was the era in which it was supposedly taken by women to keep a fashionably pale complexion. I'd guess that's why the local apothecary had a barrel of it in the first place.