Some of you know how much I love Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch. Now in its third season, the show follows the lives of 5 or 6 crab boat crews as they fish for crab during the brief but extremely competitive (and extremely lucrative) crab seasons on the ultra-treacherous Bering Sea. (You want real reality TV? Ditch your pansy “Survivor” crap and watch Deadliest Catch. It’s real. People actually die on this show. Ships actually sink. They’re not voted off the island.)

The job is called the “deadliest catch” because of the extreme nature of the job: sometime during their career, 1 in 10 crab fishermen will die on the job, and the injury rate is 100%. So when I was watching a National Geographic special called Inside the U.S. Secret Service (I know, I watch all the cool shows), a statistic jumped out at me: 1 in 4 U.S. presidents are attacked by assassins, and 1 in 10 die at their hand.

Wait a minute: 1 in 10? Yeah…we’ve had just over 40 presidents, and 4 of them have been assassinated: Garfield, Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy. Statistically, that makes being the President of the United States every bit as deadly as fishing for crab in the violent Bering Sea (although being president is probably warmer and drier). I have no witty remark here, I just find it an odd comparison that the two deadliest jobs in the country are the lowliest and the mightiest.