No peace

When I first heard that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize I thought it was a joke. It isn't.

I know that the Nobel Prize these days is often quite political and left-leaning. But guys, it's the Nobel PEACE Prize, not the Nobel Scare-Everybody-About-The-Environment Prize. If Gore's movie is the most significant work for world peace last year, it would have been a more profound and effective statement to no award a prize (as they did--or didn't do--during most of the years of the World Wars).

Maybe my politics is coloring my opinion, but I still tend to think the Grameen Bank will do more for world peace than "An Inconvenient Truth" in the long run.