Several things

Theme-schmeme, I say! Here are some pithy bits I've collected, that might be worth your perusal:

• Atrios offers another installment of simple answers to simple questions. Sigh.
  
  
• Security expert Bruce Schneier points out that our media assist would-be terrorists by making the most of every half-conceived scheme and barely detectable threat, helping us with real dangers not at all.
  
  
• The Carpetbagger notes that "jobs Americans won't do" includes not only near-slave labor but working for the Republican Party. How apt.
  (via Atrios)
  
  
• Digby recaps some evidence that our current politics seems to be defined by male panic, adding some recent bits to the galling stew. We do live in very strange times...
  (via Medley)