My Personal System Wavers Between Sepia (Indignant) and Sea-Foam Green (Sleeping) (CS)

Matt Taibbi shoots and scores with his column this week on the idiocy and shady machinations behind our beloved color coded alert system. It's worth reading for the first couple paragraphs alone, which are pretty funny.... But he brings up interesting points:
1. The convenient timing of everytime the terror alert was heightened
2. The baffling non-coverage of Ridge's recent statements regarding it, as well as reports that MI6 knew that American "intelligence was 'being fixed around the policy' "
3. The utter ridiculousness of it all that it apparantly took them (the administration and the general public) four years to figure out.

I, for one, am certainly afraid now to live in this country, but it's not the terrorists i'm afraid of. When do we get an alert system for heightened stupidity and bullshit?