[posted by Justin Levine]
1. The Nobel Peace Prize?
2. Time’s “Man of The Year”?
Hard choices…
But seriously, it seems that over my life time every award recognizing human achievement has diminished not only in stature, but even in the actual seriousness of the prize presenters.
It’s not just the awards over public figures on the world stage. Best Picture Oscar winners? Olympic Medal winners? Somehow these things seemed to actually signify something important in years past, even if I would have chosen differently.
Was it a mistake to ever take them seriously?
Have the quality of the winners actually diminished in the last generation? Or is it merely a matter of my own personal taste and perspective on life? Does anyone else understand what I am getting at here? Or am I just whispering in the wind?
[posted by Justin Levine]
News just coming in that Al Gore has indeed won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Let’s see here - Yasser Arafat awarded the Peace Prize for his terrorism against Jews, Jimmy Carter awarded the Peace Prize explicitly as a way for Europeans to protest George Bush’s foreign policy….Seems like the Nobel Peace Prize committee continues to build a steady track record of evolving into a collective left wing circle-jerk.
[published by Justin - not Patterico]
It turns out that the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize murdered a couple of Americans in a terrorist attack.
Not that this news should be a surprise to anybody who is well read on the subject, but it is still astonishing to see primary source documents illustrating the depth of knowledge and cynicism from the U.S. State Department and the international community.
[published by Justin]
Jill Stewart has an op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle on the worthlessness of a Nobel nomination. Yours truly is mentioned.
Posted by Dafydd the Great, Mr. Lizard himself. Not by Patterico, thank goodness.
Those of us who read and love Patterico’s Pontifications (I resist the impulse to link to the same blog you’re reading) know that Tim McGarry’s charge that the tone of PP “frequently descends to the emotionally puerile” is a load of kakky-doody.
– Dafydd
Clinton Watson Taylor passes along this flyer from Stanford University, with the rules for Nobel Peace Prize nominations. It appears to clarify that nominators need not have a personal invitation from the Committee in order to submit nominations; all that is required is for a nominator to fit within one of the relevant categories.
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