Opus 2012-65, Should-a-Beens: Al Gore Returns Nobel Prize

I check out the headlines of the National Enquirer when I am in the grocery store.  They are good for a laugh.  I also keep hoping to see certain headlines.  This is one of them.

“Al Gore Returns Nobel Prize”

I don’t expect to see it.  The Nobel prize has become another version of Saturday Night Live.  It has a lot of humor masquerading as important viewpoints.  Think of Barak Obama getting a Nobel prize.  He was nominated before he was elected president.  What are his accomplishments?  He has written two auto-biographies.  Of course he did promise to stop the oceans from rising and since they were not rising I guess he succeeded.  Or how about Yasser Arafat getting the Peace Prize.  Really?  That is kind of like Rodney Dangerfield getting the Respect Prize.

I don’t live in hope, I live in fantasy.

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