Elon Musk is too freewheeling and indiscriminate for my tastes. For example, he fires federal nuclear safety inspectors and bird flu trackers as if they were common paper shufflers. Who needs protection from nukes and new epidemics? Musk doesn’t, so nobody else should either!
Trump can now add book burning to his list of crazy days and crazy ways while in office. The entire staff of the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries—The Institute of Museum and Library Services—has been placed on administrative leave. So not just books are finally hitting Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn), but internet services for those who can’t afford them at home and must go to the library.
Who needs accessible and reliable information about history and the sciences anyhow? Not Musk, he just buys whatever media company or court judge he can find that will make up whatever story he wants them to.
Speaking of billionaires buying stuff, Joy Behar of The View says you know inflation is out of control when Musk can’t even buy a court election in Wisconsin for 20 million bucks. I guess even billionaires have off days.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
This article appears in Apr 10-20, 2025.