Right On The Right

Ok, so Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. In all honesty, this is news that's not that important, but great fodder for commentary. I have about a million different ways I could be insulting the Goracle right now, but about 999,999 of them have already been fleshed out on other websites. So, on to the new angle. How do you win a Nobel Peace Prize? Here's an excerpt:

3. Kill a lot of people, then stop. In 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Kissinger's CV included the "secret" bombing of Cambodia and the "Christmas" bombing of North Vietnam; just a month before his prize was announced, he was complicit in the coup that installed a brutal dictatorship in Chile. So why did he win? Because he and Tho had reached a truce to end the Vietnam War. Tho wasn't a particularly peaceful man either, but at least he had the common courtesy to refuse the award.

The first two ways to win that Nobel Peace Prize are equally comedic. I suppose if I was a blogger in the 1970s however, I would be angry because Kissinger wasn't doing enough to destroy the North Vietnamese tyrant regime. In almost a perfect parallel to today's conflict, it's administration after administration not doing enough to win the battle. Too bad the stakes are higher this time. To put this all in context, the Goracle won the prize in a unique way. He made a crappy inaccurate movie.