Say what?

[steuard]

Kim: "It's 3am and a phone is ringing in the White House. Who do you want answering that call?"

Me: "Hey, at least they didn't give it to him last year."

Kim: "Good news! Steuard's chances of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics are a lot higher than we thought!"

Me: "Yeah, this paper that I'm writing? It could totally turn out great."

Kim: "I hope The Onion's staff goes into high gear this morning and comes out with a whole series of stories like 'New Resident wins Nobel Prize in Medicine!' Actually, I wondered if this was an Onion story at first."


Don't get me wrong: I'm just as much of an Obama supporter today as I have been for years. But c'mon, Nobel committee! We've been trying to convince people to keep their expectations realistic: he can't accomplish everything he wants in just a few months. Don't go hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him like this!

Is it too much to hope that he'll courteously turn this down? Or would that end up being worse?

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[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

Pre-emptive nominations, ya know, just in case. For example, suppose he'd promptly been assassinated after taking office: Nobel Prize, anyone? Too bad we don't know who he was competing against. Oh wait...

Jen is irked that the year when the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Gore et al, the Nobel committee passed over Irena Sendler, a Holocaust survivor (now deceased) who smuggled ~2K children out of the concentration camps.

Do us a favor: when you win, decline.