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    Michael Hiltzik: Is this my last post about Elon Musk, Twitter boss?

    Back in the prehistoric era (2016), a small group of Times reporters and editors, including myself, met with Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Musk mostly talked about his idea of transporting humanity to Mars as an escape route from our global-warming-beleaguered home planet. This was his big hobby horse at that time. He was low-key and ruminative, almost convincing. It was plain ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Dec 20, 2022 4 minutes
    Elon Musk in happier times, on Oct. 26, 2022, carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

    Back in the prehistoric era (2016), a small group of Times reporters and editors, including myself, met with Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne.

    Musk mostly talked about his idea of transporting humanity to Mars as an escape route from our global-warming-beleaguered home planet. This was his big hobby horse at that time. He was low-key and ruminative, almost convincing.

    It was plain that he had thought a lot, and caringly, about the issue. He handed out coffee mugs inscribed "Occupy Mars." People took him seriously.

    Flash forward six years. The Elon Musk of today seems to be angling for the trophy of World's Biggest Jackanapes. (Choose either of the following : "an impudent or conceited fellow," or "a

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