On Saturday, Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, declared, "It is a war against terrorism, against jihad, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity," thereby engaging in a bit of alarming, if understandable, rhetorical escalation.
Here, the bacterial species, in order according to the number of alarms triggered, were K. pneumoniae (13 alarms), E. cloacae (3 alarms), P. mirabilis (3 alarms), E. coli (2 alarms), E. aerogenes (2 alarms), Salmonella spp. (2 alarms), P. aeruginosa (1 alarms), Citrobacter koseri (1 alarm), M. morganii (1 alarm), S. marcescens (1 alarm), S. epidermidis (1 alarm), and S. agalactiae (1 alarm).
We had a bit of a false alarm today, when TechCrunch's Kim-Mai Cutler spotted a bankruptcy sign on the door of the i/o Ventures building in San Francisco's Mission District.
But in briefing his recruits, he left out one bit of information on the alarm system, for fear that they might act without him.
New to the Zoo: If Asian animals interest you, and if a bit of controversy doesn't alarm you, there is a new elephant habitat open at the LA Zoo.
Yes, they did, and this weekend's events offered a bit of hope to everybody alarmed by Donald Trump.
FINALLY, there was a bit of comic relief as the alarms about bioterrorism poured in at prodigious rates and the "moon men" appearances of germ investigators became commonplace far beyond ground zero.
I think that I got a little bit of shell shock from all the alarms going off all the time because every one of them I was is she OK, is she OK.
She showed signs of alarm.
