GRod was never going to stay healthy as a starter because of poor mechanics, but he possibly could have been a shutdown reliever. Think Hunter Harvey for a future career trajectory.

While road user education isn't the complete solution, providing basic safety knowledge to everyone starting at a young age will save lives. Dismissing education as a partial solution completely will not. The key, though, is it has to start early. PSAs to adults have little impact.

While the Highway Trust Fund has been bailed out, there's still a possibility to implement mileage-based user fees to eventually replace gas tax revenues. Or the bailouts can continue. But ending or scaling surface transportation programs down and spending less is simply not an acceptable option.

I'm ready to see Buck Britton. He's developed these guys in Bowie and Norfolk. If anybody can figure out how to get Adley, Gunnar and others from being untracked - it's him.

We will have to earn our place in the world again, and part of that could and should include adopting the practices in countries that are far superior to ours.

The only thing potentially positive for the US after this destruction is the chance to remake our country better than what it was - in terms of health care, transportation, education, etc. But these next few years of watching it all crumble will be painful indeed because it has been our reality.