YEAH, WE’RE IRRATIONAL: Experts: Dogs, Bathtubs Scarier than al Qaeda.   Or as a (then) friend told me shortly after 9/11 “but I don’t understand why you’re so upset, more people die in car accidents every year.”  I realized then I was in the presence of one of the world’s great nitwits, unable to distinguish between accident and purposeful attack.  Apparently she’s not alone.  Somehow that doesn’t make it better.