Elon Musk’s Double Header Last Week

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Christopher Chantrill | July 28, 2026

I just saw the Babylon Bee headline on X: “Elon Musk Acquires Total Ownership of The Economist.” Gosh. I wonder what they meant by that?

I know. Elon totally owned that Brit editor girl, Zanny Minton Beddoes. But, as a settler-colonialist from India that grew up in Britland, I was interested in her accent. You see, back in the day, tippy-top journalists had a posh accent, also called “Received Pronunciation.” But after I left for the good old US of A, posh accents became recherché. That’s French for “overly fancy.” So everyone who was anyone began talking “estuary English.” Best way to describe it is halfway between Received Pronunciation and working-class Cockney. But Beddows’ accent is half posh, half estuary. I wonder why?

But I don’t care about The Economist. Not since editor Walter Bagehot died in 1877.

I do care about Elon Musk. And SpaceX’s Lucky 13 flight was one for the ages. My brother-in-law sent me home a couple of months ago with a copy of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, so I know all about him. In 2008, in the middle of the mortgage meltdown, his first three rockets had failed. He was broke, but just managed to scrape enough money together for Falcon 1 Flight 4. It was a success........

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