Daily Bafflements

Elaine Stritch in 2009 / Photo by Greg Hernandez

• “For my money, insecurity, depression, etc., can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4 a.m., and the pop of a champagne cork.” —Elaine Stritch.

• City Limits reports on a non-profit drug-education program that’s acting as a Trojan horse for Scientologist ideology.

• Today in Billionaires: Here you can read up on the War of the Billionaires over climate change. We can’t wait to see who wins!

• Bloomberg brings us the news that there have been more “F-bombs” in the workplace, and that they have been more tolerated generally, since the recession began. Well, it’s pretty fucking obvious why, isn’t it?