You are so right, experts and evidence are invaluable now, and rarely appreciated enough. I am not boasting when I reveal that I am 80 years old, and that the smallest city I lived in growing up was Los Angeles, and then I spent my life reading, teaching, and writing history and politics...
Good comment about Musk himself. Having read several of the biographies of Elon, none great, and after following him for years and driving four different Teslas (and the CB coming), for me, he and his work are far from perfect; but then I think of him as a free spirit with the heart of a child...
The present is so interesting with parties fragmenting and individuals shifting, with past-nostrums challenged in the next minute, the very next post. Time to ask hard questions — never naive, not cynical — alive to the future. Go Elon!
CT driving by on a dirt road covered with snow, late December or early January, calmly and as commonly as a new Model T in 1924. The neighbor headed to town as we all do, back aways and now. 22 horsepower then, 600 hp now.
Did that trip over 50 years ago with wife and 2 children, one and three. Took 8 weeks, camping. Savor every minute. Enjoy the Tetons. My wife can point out our original camp site there today and we now live a few miles away. CB on order, configured, coming soon…