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Daily Bafflements
July 21, 2014
• Today in Bespoke: “One of the common links among our travelers is they’re curious, passionate and they’re looking for unique and authentic experiences,” said Lynn Cutter, executive vice president for travel and licensing at National Geographic Society, of her ...

When Lockheed Gives You Lemons
July 18, 2014
On paper, the F-35 is an impressive plane. The fifth-generation, multirole, single-seat, single-engine Joint Strike Fighter is built primarily by Lockheed Martin, along with some help from a few other defense manufacturers. It’s the first ever STOVL (short-takeoff / vertical ...

Daily Bafflements
July 18, 2014
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 ...

Why the House of Skeeveball Still Stands
July 17, 2014
Late last year, I wrote a lengthy essay in this space postulating that Rupert (“silver Fox”) Murdoch’s 5 percent purchase of bad-boy Shane Smith’s MULTIMEDIA EMPIRE VICE (sic, more or less) was a mere token of a changing mentor/mentee relationship we would do well to ...

Daily Bafflements
July 17, 2014
• Today in Billionaires and also Today in Lesser-Known Koch News, from Reuters: “In a long-running campaign against fake vintage wine, billionaire oenophile William Koch has settled a lawsuit worth millions of dollars against New York wine retailer Acker, Merrall & ...

Daily Bafflements
July 16, 2014
• Newspaper reporter has made the CareerCast “endangered jobs” list, alongside travel agent and meter reader. • Turns out the top one percent of earners in America are even richer than we previously thought. Neat! • Dorsey Shaw at Buzzfeed watches too much cable news, ...

CNBC’s Carnival of Crazy
July 15, 2014
If, by chance, you were watching CNBC’s Fast Money Halftime Report on Monday afternoon, you may have caught an epic meltdown by Rick Santelli about Fed policy. Or, more likely, if you weren’t watching, you may have caught the rest of the Internet rolling its collective eyes ...

Daily Bafflements
July 15, 2014
• Today in Billionaires: venture capitalist Timothy Draper has been “agitating for months” for a ballot initiative to break California into six separate states, Reuters reports, adding that “the plan has raised bipartisan hackles.” Under Draper’s scheme, Silicon ...

Books Are Alive
July 14, 2014
Mark it: We’re at the point in American civilization where the very existence of a literary culture is, in fact, newsworthy. That’s why the New York Times decided to run a column last week with the incredulous headline, “The French Do Buy Books. Real ...

Daily Bafflements
July 14, 2014
• A look back at Studs Terkel’s Working on its fortieth anniversary. • Long Island workers are preparing for the possibility of the first massive railroad strike in twenty years. • Please just take note of this “I’m a Mrs.” deal on Amazon. • “It turns out we ...

Daily Bafflements
July 11, 2014
• LEGO sells “police helicopter surveillance” kits for kids aged five to twelve. That is all. (Via Elizabeth Joh.) • Speaking of which, a slightly related Today in Billionaires: “As billionaires and dealmakers descend upon Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Allen & Co. ...