Monday evening reading - March 31, 2025
More goodies from the stack of stuff I read on a daily basis here on Substack.
When I get to between six and eight posts (or so) I think are worth sharing, you’ll get Monday evening reading. It won’t be every week, but likely more often than not. There’s nothing wrong with link love! Once again, I culled this down from about 15 posts to the ones you see here, all from authors to whom I subscribe (and maybe you should too.)
Go ahead and read these pieces, then come back and see what I have to say.
I’m leading off with some hard news from
. It seems to me that the resale value of these cars is about to plummet, and not just because the battery replacement is expensive. Unfortunately for Elon Musk, there are many other EV makers out there whose wares are more politically correct and those who otherwise support him aren’t really the typical EV buyer.On that same note, Judd Garrett looks at what Musk has put his safety on the line to do.
Musk heading up DOGE personally profits him in absolutely no way, shape or form. He is willing to sacrifice billions of dollars to do what he believes is right for our country just like he did with Twitter. He didn’t buy Twitter to make money; he bought Twitter because social media companies were censoring political viewpoints. They were shutting down free speech. They deplatformed a former President of the United States. Musk knew that this type of censorship would in the end destroy America, so he stepped in.
Meanwhile, Musk just sent up one of his Space X rockets and rescued the two astronauts who have been stranded on the ISS for 9 months while NASA has done absolutely nothing to help those poor people. A private company doing the government agency’s job for them. This is why I trust Elon Musk, and the same reason why I trust Trump. Trump has lost hundreds of millions of his net worth becoming President. He was willing to risk going to jail for the rest of his life to be President again.
Altruism isn’t dead, and that’s a good thing.
Unfortunately, something which is still alive is the desire for one judge to supplant 200-plus years of Constitutional jurisprudence, and
elaborates.
Does the phrase “stay in your lane” have any meaning to these folks?
According to my friend
, this starts at the top.
You do know it would be Constitutional for Congress to wipe out all the courts and start over? Not that they have the stones to do it, but they could.
I also want to consider things which are lost while we’re at it.
believes we’re on the verge of losing a whole generation of students if we don’t pry them away from their screens.
It’s a good read on what Giola calls “zombie culture.”
is simply lost in the supermarket, lamenting the fact that shopping isn’t silent anymore (in most cases.)
He even gives a shout out to the aforementioned Giola:
You could trace the history of music and gathering food back millennia. In his book Music: A Subversive History, Ted Gioia notes the connection between music and hunting rituals. We don’t have to go back that far to understand the current incarnation of supermarket music, though. We just have to go back a century to man named George Owen Squier.
If I ever did MER for The Knothole, this piece by
would fit right in.
But we used to lose our baseballs in an open curbside catch basin, which had a little more finality. Lucky those guys didn’t play where we did.
Finally, if you listen to
, America has lost its way because we’ve lost our moral moorings Alexis de Tocqueville noted almost two centuries ago.
I like the fact Jack is a note taker like I am, which gives me a chance to collect my thoughts for future writing.
But Jack’s main point is this:
Are we hearing righteousness preached from the pulpits of this country?
For the most part, the answer is a resounding NO. Ever wonder why that is?
How about many of our preachers have surrendered to being popular rather than being holy?
If you’re in that business to be popular, you’re doing it all wrong.
Anyway, all that should keep a good reader going and thinking for awhile. (Maybe a week the way things are going.) It’s a good way to start the week, right?
In the meantime, though, you can Buy Me a Coffee, since I have a page there now.
Thanks again for the great reading selection Michael. And of course for the mention!