Roger Simon explores how the Zabar's Zeitgeist (as personified by a Nora Ephron item at the HuffPost) processes the FBI and thwarted terrorism attempts in Fort Dix and JFK airport. Meanwhile, the Anchoress notes that these stories have two memes:

think the left has a very amusing take on all of this: There is no such thing as terrorist plots - they’re just Bush constructs meant to raise his poll numbers.

See, if a terror plot is thwarted, it’s because it wasn’t really a serious plot, it was just a haphazard idea that would have gone nowhere, and Bush is wrong to pimp it as news. In fact, the news broadcasts shouldn’t even be reporting on it, because it’s just Bushian propaganda.

But if a terror plot succeeds, it’s either because Bush wanted it to succeed - to acquire power and take over the country - or it’s because Bush wasn’t paying attention, because he’s an inept moron.

What I find astonishing about Broadway and the arts in general is that you read a profile of Stephen Sondheim in which he congratulates himself on his courage and boldness for speaking out, but nothing he says is the slightest bit unusual in that environment. He says the exact things that 99 or 98 percent of his peers say. They all think about the world in the same way. Sondheim’s is an entirely conformist view. Broadway is an environment of homogenistic variety. Everyone agrees with what everything everyone else is saying and it ruins creativity. It is fair to say that the Broadway of Rodgers and Hammerstein was a great crossroad of American life that resonated with a broad audience, but that’s definitely not true today.

Update: Related thoughts from "Dirty Harry" of the LIbertas film blog.