Yesterday was a rough day in Iraq, but things have finally quieted down. Good thing, too, because I'm really tired. Maybe it's just me, but I just can't get any damn sleep with car bombs constantly going off outside my window.

Anyway, now that the dust has settled, it looks like January 5, 2006, will go down in the books as the fourth deadliest day in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad in 2003. Some 189 people were killed across the country, including 11 American soldiers.

Yep, good thing that pesky insurgency is in its last throes.