EY's Rants and Raves

From a WaPo article today "operating an extremely lethal Gatling gun" Really? "Extremely lethal"? As opposed to just "marginally lethal", "slightly lethal" or what the Girls Gone Wild Dude and Hugh Hefner would probably like, "barely lethal"?

I've always been under the impression that lethal = dead and dead was dead with no modifiers or intensifiers needed. But what do I know....?