Oct/092
More Nobel
More in the Nobel price. Barack Obama has been awarded with the Peace Nobel Price for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples". He and me agree on the same, it may be a bit soon for him to stand by such "transformative figures". It is true that his speech involves great changes on foreign policy but those changes hasn't been achieved yet, and it looks they will need long time, as we have been seeing in his attempts for nuclear disarm.
Looking around I found this article which nicely combines two of my previous posts in its title. - Obama's prize: Noble hopes in an ignoble world. Ignoble is the source of the "Ig" in the Ig Nobel Prizes, what The Globe and Mail meant with it: an exercise for the reader :)
October 10th, 2009
I want to quote Juvenal in this case:
“Nam qui dabat olim
imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se
continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat,
panem et circenses.”
-The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things — bread and circuses!
October 14th, 2009
This sums it all:
http://www.little-gamers.com/2009/10/09/leave-it-to-the-norweigans/