It kinda' makes me think of all the Medals of Freedom that Bush gave out to... people who didn't promote freedom.

The F word gets its own book.

xkck is funny today.

Scary

I got to break the news to my roommate while she was brushing her teeth. She choked, most gratifyingly.

I suppose the whole thing about stopping torture as a policy also played into the decision. If they'd just waited until he'd actually, you know closed Guantanamo already and finished making decisions on who gets prosecuted and who gets released w/o a trial because the US FUCKED UP the cases against some of them so badly.

I wrote this response to a friend on FB who is a little woo-hoo and believes that Obama is pretty much the second coming. Friend brought up Wilson's winning even though the League of Nations was a joke.

But the difference here is that those two presidents did something measurable. They had something more concrete to show for their efforts. I know that the prize isn't about attaining peace - but it should be more about what has been done. There is no League of Nations, there was no war ended, Gitmo is still open for guests and we still have troops in Iraq. It's going to take time to accomplish all that Obama wants to accomplish and I believe that he will and it will be good. But giving him this prize now is going to do more to fuck him with the opposition. If he doesn't accomplish those things in a timely or succesful fashion, he'll never win re-election and he'll go down in history as a total joke who couldn't live up to the hype. He already had so much to live up to when he took office and now, with this prize, he has even more and good president or not, he is still a human. And he's going to fail. And now, he gets to fail with a Nobel Peace Prize which ain't good.

I believe in him. I think he'll do great things for our country, but for the love of all that's holy, let's wait for him to do those great things before putting him higher on the pedestal than he already is.

Mark my words - this will fuck him more than it will help.

xkck is funny today.

The mouseover text is hilarious. Also making me feel really, really old.

Yeah, I don't get the Peace Noble Prize this year either.

They had 205 candidates, and a part of me thinks they picked one randomly.

Mark my words - this will fuck him more than it will help.

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of....

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

A crafty alternative for those who don’t necessarily want to eat their baby’s placenta, but want to pay their respects to the life sustaining organ by turning it into a one-of-a-kind teddy bear.

Um... no.

Just no.