The reason there were mountain men in the old days is that they appreciated nature and they didn’t feel alone though they often were. It’s not that hard to rekindle that feeling you only have to work at it a little. I was taking walks in the woods back when I was in grade school and I seldom feel alone though it’s harder to feel like that in a city.

I’ve seen nothing about China’s BYDs that doesn’t make me think they’re far better engineered. Hell, before Trump forced us to pay a huge tax to buy Chinese, they were even cheaper.

Gates is an unusual man who deserves a lot of praise. Most billionaires only want to build monuments to themselves. Gates has picked off a lot of projects that have virtually no chance of being funded by anyone or anything else. That’s epic and legendary.