Ig Nobels

[alice wellintown]

Or maybe to Tank Man, who stood in front of the Chinese tanks, but
that might prove impossible. Where is Tank Man? Obviously the Nobel
folks recognize that the world is faced with several huge and pressing
problems and have elected to focus on a handful including the Nuclear
Arms crisis. I applaud them for doing so and believe they made the
right choice. Hope is a powerful counter-force and the current
President of the US has given more of it to more people than anyone
else in recent memory. I too have reservations about the cult status
of the President and his misguided decisions concerning the Military
Camps in Colombia, the incarceration of people who have not been
charged with crimes, the wars or war or whatever it is that he is
running, his failure to act on the Wall Street & Real Estate debacle,
his staff and cabinet appointments, his failings in the Middle East,
his goof ups on race and class politics, but he has obviously inspired
a nation that was in dire need of inspiration and he has turned the
tide the black tide of Bush in a new direction that has some people
talking who were not and some people backing off from extreme
positions. A Giant Step for Mankind. A Giant Step.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:49 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Idealism and realpolitik might have been better served by awarding it symbolically to those Iranians (not their purported leader) who, knowing they could be beaten or shot, peacefully marched on the streets of Teheran in an anti-government protest.  They showed the world what courage looks like and how peaceful change is made.
>
> Laura