Everybody Can Have One

What, a Nobel Prize - for peace, specifically, because the ones for chemistry and hard sciences are still meaningful.

Barack Obama won one.

What the hell did he do to deserve it, I cannot figure out.

Arafat's prixe was breathtaking in the degree of contradictions and stupidity it manifested. But this one is just surreal, I cannot find other words.

In other more interesting news, last night I watched Inglorious Basterds. Some recent movies have agonized over collateral damage, but this one revels in it. Tarantino must have never heard that in fiction killing Hitler is regarded as impolite.