Blogger for nobel peace prize

Echoing an idea we had last week, Patterico has called for a social science, history, philosophy, law, and theology professor, judge, or legislator to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I’m not asking because I think I somehow deserve it. I just want to mock the idea that being nominated is some great distinction. For example, I keep reading that murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams was nominated for one, as if this is somehow relevant to whether he should be executed.

It’s not — because anyone can be nominated.

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Not to mention that murderer Yasser Arafat actually won one.

Nothing would demonstrate how utterly meaningless such a nomination truly is like nominating someone completely undeserving of it — like me.

Here's a searchable database of nominees from 1901-1951. Note that Chamberlain and Hitler were nominated in 1939.