I'm not sure about you but this time of year brings about a small irritation. That is the misnaming by many to mis-label the Nobel Prizes. There is only one Nobel Peace Prize. There is not a Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine, etc. It's a Nobel Prize for Medicine etc.
The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset) is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was stablished by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.[1] The Nobel Prizes in the specific disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature) and the Prize in Economics, which is commonly identified with them, are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields.[1] The Nobel Peace Prize conveys social prestige and is often politically controversial.
So give each Prize it's due, call it by it's proper name. It's kinda like calling a water heater a hot water heater. It's just a small thing, but it does bug me. Call it a pet peeve if you will. Just thought I'd take this as an opportunity to highlight it.
I'm not going to expound on the award going to President Obama other than to say I'm enjoying watching the heads of the right explode. Morning Joe had Joe and Kathleen Parker going WTF? I think it also show's the world is greatly relieved that Bush is gone and those crazy Americans didn't elect another belligerent asshole as President. If you haven't read the diaries by sc kitty and DiegoUK(videos) you should. It also shows how narrow the view of the world those on the right is, call it American Myopic Syndrome, an inability to see the world except through the lens of American Exceptionalism or their inability to see the the rest of the world at all.
A quick personal note here.
You may or may not have heard Timroff is in the hospital. He was admitted with cellulitius caused by a staff infection. Give him a call, 216.844.9707 @ University Hospital.
On with the games!!
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