This is the most bizarre (and confusing) iteration pattern I have ever seen. The documentation for have_posts(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/have

This is the most bizarre (and confusing) iteration pattern I have ever seen. The documentation for have_posts(http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/have_posts http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/have_posts) shows a pretty silly fail case as well.