The Peace Prize is given by Norway, not Sweden. Very likely the choice is based on Norwegian politics.

I can't believe that the current situation, in which water borne diseases are major killers, is better than Iraqis ever had before. The invasion and its consequences have killed a vast number of Iraqis, and Americans are responsible. Sorry, Dionysios, but you should stay away from the wine of American vanity. Otherwise you end up sounding like the harlot in the Book of Proverbs, who "eats," wipes her "mouth" and says "I have done nothing wrong."

Maybe full-bore economic collapse will save the rest of the world, esp. if the people at home start blaming each other and fighting to punish each other.

Coming soon to an America near you! Or maybe you going soon to some place in Afghanistan, for annoying someone.

There's a Left in America???

But be more succinct in your speech.

As Livy said a long time ago, we can endure neither our vices nor their correction.

Railroads, windmills, solar water heaters are banned by the 10th amendment? That's news to me!

But scientists can easily be as nutty or as bigoted as anyone else. Think about all the Nazi Egyptologists, anthropologists, etc. The Commie ones, too.

Not in a million years.