Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize
for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples
I had thought he might eventually get it but this came much sooner than I expected. Anyway, good for him!
Obama, The First Nerd President
Comedian John Hodgman (PC guy in Apple ads) speaks at the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner. Every sentence is a killer. Watch and learn.
Quote of the Day
“Barack thinks with his mind open,” said Charles Ogletree, a law professor at Harvard. “Larry thinks with his mouth open.”
On the president-elect and his top economic advisor. The source article is here.
On another note, Larry Summers’ career swings remind me that the greatest setbacks to intellectual development come from the ever increasing push for political correctness. In the impossible task not to offend anyone in any imaginable way, some of the most progressive people choose to burn daring intellectuals in mass media bonfires for challenging noble ideas that rest on false premises. This is wrong. The consequences of persecutions against individuals who only hypothesize things that are at odds with convenient notions go beyond them losing jobs and career prospects - the chilling effect becomes a silent killer of ideas. In Larry Summers’ case, he just suggested an explanation to the current situation in tier 1 academia. He might, or might not have belived that the underrepresentation of women in certain sciences is due to innate differences between the sexes. But those two are facts and linking them does not spell the end of the world. Larry’s idea did not postulate that the most brilliant mathematician alive cannot be a woman but rather that she will most likely be in the company of five men with almost similar abilities at the top.
Obama
He did it. He brought back the sense of childlike wonder to millions who believed.
Powell Endorses Obama
Powell makes one of the strongest arguments to choose Obama over McCain. Kudos!
