Blue Collar Muse

Former US Senator and VP cum pseudo-scientific alarmist Al Gore has been in the news a fair amount over the last week or so. Mostly for winning The Nobel Peace Prize. As the Selection Committee didn’t ask me for input, I wasn’t able to suggest that he be awarded a Prize more fitting for his contribution to society - say, the Nobel Meteorological Prize or the Nobel ‘Risky Scheme’ Prize. Absent my input, they awarded Mr. Gore the Nobel Prize for Peace. Did I mention Al hasn’t done a lot of work in that field? How then did he win?

But, win he did. I wish him well. Still, a quick browse through my blogroll last night yielded two VERY interesting posts.

For those of you wondering whether or not Mr. Gore is really and truly committed to the discipline that earned him his prize, please check out ‘Inconvenient and Inconvenienter’ at Ft. Hard Knox. It’s not new info but it bears repeating given the explosion of Gore-dmiration washing over certain parts of the nation.

For those of you wondering about Mr. Gore’s competition for his **Peace** prize, please visit Karl’s post ‘Do You Know Who Irena Sendler Is? You Should!’ at Leaning Straight Up. We used to give the Peace Prize to men like Dr. Martin Luther King (1964). However, since Mahatma Ghandi never won The Nobel Peace Prize, it seems odd that we award it to men like Yassir Arafat and now Al Gore.

If anyone has any additional interesting observations on the irony or inappropriateness of Mr. Gore receiving this award, please leave them in comments.

Thinking that the Committee needs some refresher courses on the clear meaning of words …

Blue Collar Muse

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