Game. Set. Match. Littoral Combat Ship.

In response to the Navy's new 380 foot toy, drug smugglers are countering with a submarine. Built in a jungle. But don't worry, it has a periscope. I mean seriously, look at this thing.



First of all, I want to know how these drug entrepreneurs plan to get this 100 foot long submarine from La Loma - in the middle of the Ecuadorian jungle (see point A on the map below) where it was built to avoid detection - to the ocean without being, well, detected.



And why are all the newscasters excited that the submarine has "air conditioning, and even a periscope." Have you heard of a submarine before?

The camo is also awesome. Are they trying to hide in a Warhol painting?

But in the end, perhaps the serious embarrassment falls on the most powerful government in the world for not being able to stop these devastatingly brilliant drug runners? Nah, I think I'll put my money on the LCS. The ALCS.

Wow...BP sure has/does/and will continue to suck

From Mother Jones...its seems BP used to market a family board game about offshore drilling...GROSS.

Talk about creepy foresight meets dark humor: The UK Metro unearthed a 1970s board game marketed by BP, "Offshore Oil Strike." The game's tag line, "The thrills of drilling, the hazards and rewards as you bring in your own …" seems somewhat regrettable given the company's current situation.

Metro explains how the "exciting board game for all the family" works:

Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.

But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded 'hazard cards', which state: 'Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.'

Unhappily for BP, that is just one per cent of the amount it has spent each day tackling the very real Deepwater Horizon leak, which has seen millions of barrels of oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico and hit the southern US coast.

The House On The Hill Toy Museum in Stansted, Essex, is the proud owner of a mint-condition game. "The parallels between the game and the current crisis… are so spooky," museum owner Alan Goldsmith told the paper. Spooky indeed that simulated blow-outs were once BP's idea of family fun.