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Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Nominate Patterico

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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?