Attack of the ... wait, what?

Lashes out! Attacks! Gosh, see if you can guess what the Theme of the Day is. Wonder what it's based on?

HAMPTON, Virginia — US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.

OK, we've com- plained before about the tendency of hed writers to reach into the vocabulary bag and grab the loudest verb that comes to hand. I think we have something more than the puppyish enthusiasm of the desk at hand here.