Hmmm.

According to multiple studies, it is estimated that the total number of civilians that have died in Iraq ranges from around 1.1 million to 654,000. The former being a 2008 estimate, the latter a 2006 estimate.

For the sake of this exercise, let's hypothesize that since the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003 to the present, one million (1,000,000) Iraqi civilians have been killed. Since the US didn't invade until March 20, let's assume the war began in April. So from April 2003 to January 2009 is 58 months, or 1764 days (approximately).

Given these assumptions, on average, 567 Iraqi civilians have died each day since the US invasion. Civilians, not soldiers.

You May Be More Racist Than You Think

..according to Kawakami, et al (via CNN).

But a comment from the CNN article struck me: "Why do they never study racism from the other direction? Why is it always white to black and not black to white?"

and this one: "Where is the study about racism by black people against white people, Jewish people, hispanic people, or Asian people? What does this prove? Only white people are racist? It seems that they may have wanted to study the reverse scenario as well."

Here is my reply (and my usual reply to this line of reasoning):
There is a difference between racism and discrimination. yes, any group can be discriminatory against another group. but racism is a system of oppression and privilege that includes interpersonal discrimination, institutionalized inequalities, and a culture around it that has been designed (overtly or through the tyranny of small decisions) to continuously reinforce the unequal status quo. Racism is power plus prejudice. Discrimination is just prejudice.