Here Was a Royal Fellowship of Death
Crooked Timber comments on the recent estimate:
The Lancet paper by Burnham et al. study estimates about 655,000 excess deaths in Iraq for the period of March 2003 to July of 2006, of which about 600,000 are directly attributable to violence—an appalling number. Right-wing reaction has been, understandably, that the 600,000 estimate is unbelievably high. (Tim [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If you have any music that may not be heard, to’t again.” –Othello, 3.1.16
