The article is totally false btw. You can add up every government incentive my companies have ever received and they amount to less than 2% of the value of SpaceX and Tesla! And many of these incentives actually helped our competitors disproportionately to Tesla or SpaceX. For example, when President Trump removed the $7500 tax credit for electric vehicles, Tesla sales actually INCREASED, because more buyers shifted from other EV makers to Tesla.

There is a particular quality to the roads that wind through rural Georgia after a summer rain. The air hangs heavier, the pine scent sharper, and the whole landscape seems content to exist without apology or call for renovation. By comparison, Atlanta often feels like a man in a hurry to update his wardrobe every season. New districts appear almost overnight, each promising to be the next vibrant focus of urban development. Some succeed handsomely; others simply pave over what came before. As someone who belongs to both Georgias — the city of my birth and the countryside that still shapes my affections — I find myself hoping Atlanta’s urban core can learn to value proportion as much as progress. The truest Southern strength has never lain in speed alone, but in the ability to hold tradition and new possibility in the same generous hand. Without that balance, we risk becoming strangers to our own land and culture.

Per partecipare alla fiera della piccola e media editoria “Più libri più liberi”, che si svolgerà a Roma, le case editrici dovranno ottenere quest’anno il “patentino antifascista”, sottoscrivendo un’apposita dichiarazione. È così che la sinistra concepisce la libertà di pensiero: sei libero, ma solo se dici quello che loro ti permettono di dire, se pensi quello che loro pensano, se leggi quello che loro considerano consono. La cancellazione delle idee non di sinistra, camuffata da lotta antifascista, è un vecchio vizio della sinistra, ma è una storiella alla quale ormai non crede più nessuno. Si chiama, banalmente, censura. E la censura è incompatibile con qualsiasi società democratica.

“I get it. I do. You're an individualist. Rugged individualism. It simply doesn't work anymore. Brands. Sure. A useful heuristic. But ultimately, everything is all systems interlaced, a single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky. They get a choice, of course. Of course! But they are buying salsa.” ~Mr. World, "American Gods"

The honorable and others will learn honor.

A project well done, actually.

YIMBY: They say "Yes in my back yard' when they mean "Yes in YOUR back yard." (Thanks to @criticalurban - I just reformatted it a little.)

Of course it's not just an Atlanta thing. But why import a thing like this into Atlanta?

Because, first of all, passenger rail was disproportionately more expensive than a highly profitable cargo. But also, and of great cultural importance, the automobile essentially emancipated a rising middle class and working class post World War II. "See the USA in your Chevrolet." And nowhere was this more true than outside of the Northeast and it's denser, though not as far reaching, rail system. But overall it was still the cost of passenger rail versus cargo rail for the private railroads. Outside of the Northeast and perhaps the industrial Great Lakes as far as Milwaukee (certainly Chicago) passenger rail was for distance travel, not for daily commuting. Then with the 1950s came not just the empowerment of the middle class to control their personal and family transportation, the American romance with the automobile was on the rise. And while it served individuation in short daily travel, the American automobile was built for distance and flexibility, and so competed directly with passenger rail; the traveler, or traveling family (and that is important), was granted a flexibility of direction and destination unknown to rail. Years back, a friend who was a Vietnam vet, and a Chicago butcher, who then became a GM auto mechanic, rightly said, posing both the question and answer: "Why are American automobiles so big? Because it's a big country." If you are old enough, you would remember jingles for oil companies, such things as 🎶"Gonna take my car and travel far on US 41. My family's looking for some fun and plenty of Florida sun. Got folks to meet in Old St Pete and all along the line. Going to fire up with Firebird Super at the big blue Pure Oil sign."🎶 And of course such iconic roads like "Route 66." It was the 20th century version of the 19th century's western movement, a kind of motorized Manifest Destiny after the wagons, and then the heavy rail, came the romantic narrative of the American automobile. So it was much more than just "cost" for the railroads, even though that was the primary issue. Despite the railroad having its own romanticized era, by 1970 America was no longer tied to the railroad tracks.

A new urbanist thing, exploring the car free sewer system. The news caster warns the sewers are dangerous as he stands in traffic.

Today is day 147 of van life, and it's the first morning in a number of days with a clear sky. We've had so many overcast or mostly cloudy days recently, it's good to see the sunshine. So I stopped for breakfast at one of the Chick-fil-A's in Suwanee, Georgia, And while I'm eating breakfast, the van's RV electrical system is recharging in the sunlight. Plump chicken biscuit, hash browns with Texas Pete, and a cup of black Thrive Farmers® coffee. Like a cat, enjoying sitting in the sun.

The Atlanta Opera completes its historic Ring Cycle with a monumental ‘Twilight of the Gods’ earrelevant.net/2026/06/the-…

They say Yes in My Back Yard when they really mean Yes in Your Back Yard.

Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gratuity which explain why things tip.

The Atlanta Opera completes the Southeast’s first Ring cycle with Wagner’s ‘Twilight of the Gods’ earrelevant.net/2026/05/the-…

M.E.B. opens Atlanta Jazz Festival with electrifying Miles Davis tribute at Symphony Hall earrelevant.net/2026/05/m-e-…