[The Electrician]

President Kim's crowning achievement—his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize—may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy.

So much of the Nobel committee's "glorious work" has been tainted... Arafat... Carter... Kim... where does it end and when will they get a clue?

[Mmmike]

The Nobel Prize has been touted so highly by "all the best people" that it's easy to lose perspective and see the prize as some sort of Olympian pronouncement that so-and-so (this year's winner) is greatness personified. Considering how embarrassing the Nobel committee's decisions have been in recent years, one is reawakened to the fact it's just a prize endowed by some rich inventor about 100 years ago.