Sports car into space a splendid triumph or just a silly stunt

We’re not judging understand. But we can’t quite grasp the meaning of the “special payload” in today’s Elon Musk spectacular. You decide. Then harrowing motor news as cars and trucks slam into each other in the fog on the highway from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. Frightening. Below that, the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it stood. Cold War hero Willy Brandt called it the Wall of Shame and so it was. Finally, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has had a bulldozer roll over some smuggled luxury cars in a lesson to the perpetrators.