It changed again today, as everyone by now must know. And Harrogate hopes everyone reacted accordingly. He knows he did.
But in all seriousness, is there any other possible purpose behind this (empty?) signifier than fostering fear? What's granny in the Bronx supposed to do when the thing goes from one color to the next, anyway?
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I'm terribly nervous--my terror alert indicator has changed from a solid Ernie to an Elmo, Ernie, and Bert. I investigated and, fortunately, I fall under the Bert category. Whew. I almost bought some duct tape.
Back in my second semester of my Ph.D. program (2003), I prof. joked that he almost ran out to by duct tape. I looked at him and said why? He replied, "to close up the windows," and I said what about all of the other cacks in the house where air would walk in....
his reply. "Right."
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