Grab the Popcorn: Elon Musk Just Bought Twitter

The latest episode of As the Twitter-verse Turns is a doozy.

Chief Engineer of SpaceX Elon Musk celebrates the safe return of NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley during a welcome home ceremony at Ellington Field near the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 2, 2020. Photo credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

“Don’t introduce a pistol in the first act unless you intend to see it fired in the second,” were the immortal words of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

The advice on storytelling, from a master like Chekhov, isn’t just a caution against unnecessary flourishes, though it is that. Art, as we are…