Leave it to the British to name a nuclear submarine "HMS Artful". It almost strikes as much fear into your heart as her sister ships, the HMS Resplendent and the HMS Flamboyant.

Anyone else think that torpedo sounds like weak sauce? It's a torpedo that weighs 4,000lbs and it only has a 660lb HE warhead?

Is that a Corvette C4 in the headline picture? I got bait and switched on that thinking this might be a list of cars like that, although I wouldn't have thought them under the $5K range.

Never can get enough UFC bashing on Deadspin. Maybe one day the MMA writers at Deadspin will get their wish: UFC will just fold and return MMA to the dark ages of 2000 all over again

"She obviously didn't read our disclaimer, which is that it's a comedy book."

Argh Kinja!

"Still, I think it's safe to say that this Pope is a loose cannon cop who doesn't play by the rules. He's basically the Axel Foley of the Catholic Church."

No it is not. The difference between colonizing Mars and 17th Century America is more than degree. I am one of those who would volunteer for the one way trip. Certain death would be less of an issue for me than spending a couple of years in an environment that would resemble the interior of an outhouse. But that type…

Typing comments on the kinja bedevilled Android phone where editing is an adventure is not conducive to clarity but I meant that Google is an evil empire, not the US. (Christ, even just trying to copy the first sentence of my post to paste in here as a quote causes kinja to pop up with:

But maybe google (rightfully) feels yhat as a worldwide evil empire that "national pride" or "patriotism" is inappropriate or parochial. It doesn't seem that google has a set policy on doodles, and fighting Nazis seems among the least contentious military subjects, but it still could be an area they want to steer…

somehow missed the picture

I can do better than that, my riming good man.

There is a 24 hour mini mart near my house. About 20 years ago I was shopping there at 3:30 in the morning and ran into Saul Rubinek buying produce in big fur coat. (Saul was in the fur coat, not the produce). It wasn't particularly cold so the fur coat seemed a bit odd, but graded on the curve of running into Saul…

I read this as

Not that I don't like these actors, but I have to say everytime you see "flavour of the month" added to cast of "long running cultural touchstone" I wince a bit

This should end well

So what constitutes "a ton" of porn, and what exactly would be the cutoff for a "small" brain?

Certainly the memorable one is the Hobbit when i was 8. I might have read something before that which did not make the same impression, and/or EB White's anthropomorphized animal stories like Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little are not fantastic enough.

Yeah, and that is why flying that flag is just a reminder of "tradition" not a gratuitously racist provocation by idiots with no real sense of history

Well among the things I was planning on writing before Kinja decided to start transposing all my input into Right to Left ALLCAPS (and then did the same on 2 subsequent attempts, then finally crashed my browser) were: