Who cares about numbers...

...we're all going to die! The Numbers Guy at WSJ Online:

"On a Web site promoting the awareness week, a fact sheet filled with exclamatory lightning stats says, 'Lightning Kills About 100 People In The U.S. Each Year!' But another page states, 'In the United States, an average of 66 people are killed each year by lightning.' And the National Weather Service's own stats show that, over the past 10 years, the average number of lightning fatalities has been 45. Deaths haven't topped 53 in a single year since 1996."

Statistics and facts get in the way of perfectly good agendas - just ask Al Gore.