Just read The Iraqi insurgency for beginners at Salon. You will have to watch a brief ad, but then you have access to all of Salon’s content.

The good news? We are fucked, pure and simple. The bad news? It will be much, much worse for everybody, including us, if we just pull out.

There you go. Happy Saturday!

Oh, okay. Isn’t there a tiny bit of silver lining in those clouds? Well, sure: apparently every insurgent group in Iraq is in desperate need of a good graphic designer. Man, those are some ugly-ass logos!