(Comic from Wiley's Non-Sequitur)

I really find this whole color-coded chart of alert level to be a little ridiculous. It's like telling us "be kind of afraid," "be very afraid," or "run around like chickens with your heads cut off because terrorists are going to knock on your front door." What difference does it make? Either way, we're still going to be either scared because our lunatic administration made another incredibly prophetic "we don't know when or where or how, but there's going to be another terrorist attack soon" statement, which kind of negates the whole color code thing anyways. When you make that kind of vague statement, everyone's going to go straight to red anyways.

Look, we've been under threat of terror for years. We've just been blissfully ignorant of it. If we get such vague warnings from our government, is it really worth it to get upset and to change our plans? If we don't know when or where or how terrorists will strike us again, we should just go about our daily lives. Rather than spending all this money on PR stuff for the color coding and making up cute little charts to show the press and the general public, how 'bout we use the money spent on that to actually help fund the FBI and the CIA and the NSA so they can catch these terrorists before they have a chance to strike?