Daily Bafflements

• 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 customers who drop the equivalent of a home mortgage on “bespoke” travel experiences such as walking across a bridge holding hands with an orangutan.

• Today in Strikes: Labor actions by Long Island Rail Road still off; South African metalworkers and engineers still on.

• Today in Fake Millionaires: the Daily News reports on the latest from the saga of conman Steven Goldmann, who was arrested in March for “weaseling thousands of dollars out of businesses in four states while posing as an FBI agent, a bounty hunter and a millionaire businessman.” This American hero was wearing a fake K-9 unit uniform, and “carrying a fake badge, gun, holster and mace” on the day he was arrested in North Dakota.

• “Gathering in the swank W hotel, a confab of wealthy start-up founders, college engineering students, long-shot local GOP candidates and self-described political geeks professed their mutual disdain for heavy-handed government and declared allegiance to a Rand Paul-style of governing that they’d like to think is on the upswing in the American body politic.” A description of Young Republicans at a campus conference? No sir, that’s Politico on the “Libertarian Revolution” in Silicon Valley, woof.