What color is it, today?

[Nic Name]

There are various alert systems currently in place, for functions ranging from transportation to the weather, and President Bush ordered a review that will place them under a single federal framework. Attorney General John Ashcroft will assign threat conditions in consultation with Ridge.

The Ridge Report for today:a manageable YELLOW

[Edit] Since posting this, I noticed Tom Tomorrow has a similar take on this new system.

Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Good news


After six months, the Office of Homeland Security has made a substantive step toward ensuring our safety--with a system of color-coded threat assessments!


You can just imagine Tom Ridge staying up late, pouring over tapes of old Star Trek episodes. "Okay--red alert is more serious than yellow alert, right?"


At least now, the next time there's a threat they don't tell us about, it will have a corresponding color which we probably won't know about either.

damn, he's funny!