As if raiding poor people's homes will do anything at all except make their lives a further misery.

People really need to learn how to not drive like complete jackasses when the weather turns.

Halloween group costume inspiration: Attack of the Zom Bees.

@2
>>
It was not immediately known what
caused the pickup to veer off the
freeway. The accident remains under
investigation,
<<

And the t.v. ad that says "It doesn't mean your anti-gay..."
Yes, yes it does.

@2
Hey, cut us some slack, I drive like a complete jackass in perfect conditions. I'd go as far to say I'm severely disabled as a driver (too many moving parts for my simple mind -clutch, gearshift, pedestrians, cars, stoplights, etc). Heather McHugh! where are you? My backseat driver needs a vacation!

Here I thought @2 was talking about the submarine or ship driver (and being funny).

@7
oh shit, you might be right. I've been on Slog too long. Every year, we're hear commenters squawking about bad drivers when winter rolls along. Nice catch.

@8: Here I thought the "i" was cut off in your avatar, but no, you really mean calamar.

To me the roads in Washington State seem unnaturally slick with even the slightest bit of moisture.

Catholics do not worship saints. The venerate them as people who live lives of exceptional holiness.

@9
yes ma'am, bingo. my toddler-level readiness for the Mexican majority come 2040-ish. Squid-licious!

@10

Roads are extra slick when it rains after a dry spell. This is due to a buildup of oil and grease that coats the road.

@10 Catholics like to turn people, just people, into gods. It's a very ancient and primitive behavior. And used in a lot of superstitions.

Ooops @11

@11 - It is a silly matter of semantics. Catholics can pretend all they want, but even ignoring the trinity nonsense, saints are worshipped as minor gods with divine powers; Christianity is polytheistic.

@15, 16, 17 - I'm not saying it isn't kinda batshit crazy, but the branches of Christianity that recognize saints call their observance veneration, not worship. Agree with it or not (put me in the not camp), I still think it's useful to call things by their proper names.

@14 You have no freaking idea how a submarine works.

To the people talking about Catholics worshipping saints, in Sunday school we were taught that you pray to saints to pray to God for you.

I've seen Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, so I know that real "hive of scum and villany" is the... Rio de Janeiro police force! (bum bum BUUUUM!)

The film, said to be "semi-fictional", presents a picture of rampant corruption, abuse of power, and neglect of public welfare throughout all levels of Rio government and law enforcement.

The movie also happens to be fucking awesome. (Cliche movie pitch: think The Wire meets City of God.) It was filmed in these very shantytowns of Rio.

What a brutal existence. Humanity has a long way to go.

@19: (and I grew up doin' the Vatican Rag) —which kinda goes in the same box as Muslims' inability to tolerate any depiction of Mohammed. Your omnipotent/omniscient god can only manage to tune in a dozen channels, like old-timey VHF? Your "prophet" is such a great man that a few scratches of pen on paper can bring him low?

@18: maybe I've told this story before, but seeing a weeping woman openly rubbing the cootchal area of a BVM plaster statue in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral left me with no doubt as to exactly whom she was pleading with.

@15, 16

Too bad.

That was the greatest non sequitur in the history of comments.

Just a heads up: RADAR works in the air. SONAR works in the water. And subs don't have windows, you know.