From a reader:

Oh, sure, Obama was wrong about the KS story — but piece together his thinking, and perhaps that many dead isn’t entirely impossible…
What if the threat of the “Tyranny of Oil” which Obama has likened to the tyranny of fascism and communism were to unite in an alliance with “Cynicism” which Obama has identified as our biggest enemy? And heaven help us if that unholy union were to engage in the “Verbal Violence” which Obama pointed us to in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy.
A conflation of all his abstract analogies would create an unimaginable toll, one that would create casualities in numbers like the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on a beach or like the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin or the number of roads a man must walk down before they call him a man or something.