Wednesday, 8 February 2006

An honor just to be nominated

Some folks are making a big deal about U.N. ambassador John Bolton’s nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize, for no good reason. As Eugene Volokh pointed out when Stanley “Tookie” Williams’ Nobel nomination was being ballyhooed, the pool of people who can nominate Nobel Peace Prize candidates is rather broad, and includes all professors of the social sciences: I, for example, could nominate Friday for a Nobel if the spirit moved me to do so.

Some wags might argue that a dog would be more deserving than many past recipients of the prize, much less random nominees.

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[Permalink] 1. Steven Taylor wrote @ Thu, 9 Feb 2006, 8:23 am CST:

I haven’t looked into the Bolton nomination (and was unaware of it), but based on some research I did on this topic regarding a fellow who claimed such a nomination in the past, it would seem that the official nominee list is secret:
http://www.poliblogger.com/?p=6588

 
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