Ig Nobels

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:29 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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.

Better is better and Bush was/is the black hole of Crawford Texas.

Katrina was a near miss—I say Gaia was aiming for a spot a bit north  
and east of New Orleans but you know how these things can get out of  
hand—sister Eris always has a trick up her sleve.

So yeah, at least as a figurehead/"Official" head of state Obama is a  
quantum leap above his predecessor and his call for nuclear  
disarmament at this juncture of time is worthy of a Nobel prize all by  
Its lonesome.

Too bad the big show's still run by Bushco.