Given the state of SC roads, it's a nice irony

From The Secular Right, a meditation- without specifically saying so- on Senator Jim DeMint's obsession with men who wear girly underwear on planes:

But it’s still intriguing to me why dying in a terrorist-induced airplane crash has a greater hold on the public imagination than driving on the highway, where there are about 40,000 fatalities in the U.S. a year, much higher on a per-mile basis than the number of deaths from non-terror-induced airline crashes, of which there are many more than terror incidents.  We do not have a federal agency checking everyone who gets on a highway for driving safety.  Terror attacks are intentional, not accidental, so the public policy imperative of sending a tough-on-terror message is arguably far greater than for highway crashes.  But that fact doesn’t affect the individual perception of risk, which seems to be influenced by issues of agency, control, possibly even altitude.