Don't you love it when someone advocates for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize based upon the hopes that the awardee's opponents will stroke-out and die?

AL'S NOBEL PRIZE....Will Al Gore win the Nobel Peace Prize this Friday, as the London Times speculates? I certainly hope so.

This isn't because I think it will prompt him to run for president. It won't. It's not even because I think he's necessarily done the most for world peace in the past year. Rather, it's because this would be a huge prospective triumph. If Gore does win, I expect it to cause a massive collective seizure among the conservative crackpot brigade, and that would do more to advance the cause of world peace than anything else I can think of. So I'm rooting for you, Al.....

Of course, that comes from a liberal, so we certainly can't accuse him of being hateful, can we.

Too bad Kevin Drum is unwilling to come out in favor of someowne pushing for freedom in the face of a real threat to the world -- someone who has put her life on the line. You know, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose words on behalf of women's rights and against the oppressive practices of traditional Islam have painted a target on her back. Someone who has experienced the horrors of female genital mutilation and forced marriage only to fight back against the misogyny they represent.

But then again, what is her experience when compared to that of the guy who did the voice-over narration on a biased film and put his name on a ghost-written book of junk science?

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