Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[innerSpaceman]

And to tie it all together, I wonder how high unemployment is in Iraq, now that we've likely killed most of the civilian men, those who haven't died in insurgent bombings. I don't think insurgency pays much, so I don't think we can count the men left alive in Iraq, most of whom are in militias or death squads.

What's the death squad wage rate nowadays?