Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Nominate Patterico
Scott is RIGHT over at Powerline, Worthier (by far) than Arafat.
Patterico makes a good case as well, Nominate Patterico for a Nobel Peace Prize.
If you are a professor, judge, or legislator, then I want to hear from you. I want you to nominate Patterico for a Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m dead serious about this.
I’m not asking because I think I somehow deserve it. I just want to mock the idea that being nominated is some great distinction. For example, I keep reading that murderer Stanley “Tookie†Williams was nominated for one, as if this is somehow relevant to whether he should be executed.
It’s not — because anyone can be nominated.
As Eugene Volokh explains, being nominated is really no big deal:
Any social science, history, philosophy, law, and theology professor, judge, or legislator in any country (plus a few others) can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize (past nominees, just in 1901-1951, included Hitler, Stalin, and Molotov).
Not to mention that murderer Yasser Arafat actually won one.
OK!
Flap is convinced.
And if Tookie Williams………
How about it, Hugh?