The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, December 23, 2003  

WHICH TERROR ALERT ARE YOU?
Is This a Quiz?
They Said There Would Be No Math Colors!

The Department of Homeland Security on Sunday raised the national “terror alert” from ELEVATED to HIGH, based on, according to Heimatlandsminister Tom Ridge, the following:

Credible sources suggest the possibility of attacks against the homeland [sic] around the holiday season and beyond. The information we have indicates that extremists abroad are anticipating near-term attacks that they believe will either rival or exceed the attacks that occurred [in 2001].

For those of you playing with the color-coded home game, that was a shift from YELLOW to ORANGE.

For those of you playing with the special-edition Sesame Street® version of the home game, that was an upgrade from BERT to ERNIE.


For those of you playing with all of your marbles, just go about your business.

Welcome, once again, to the Age of Unseriousness.*

(* Your saw it here first.)

[Ed.: I’m not sure to whom the original credit for this graphic goes. If you know, please drop me a line.]

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