Some lucky year Barack Ombama’s having, first the US Presidency and then the Nobel Peace Prize.   Sweet.  Did he deserve it? No. He hasn’t done anything yet.  Should he accept it? Yes.  What can you do “No, I spit on your silly prize.  I spit on peace.  Spplshttzss!”

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It’s good that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  One more win for America. We should have everything.  USA! USA!

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At the gym yesterday, I was watching Bonnie Greer (American commentator-artiste type with longstanding British connections) and some pasty-puffy neo-con-ish British politcal pundit having a discussion on Sky News about whether or not Obama deserved the prize.  Bonnie was saying “It’s in the gift of the Nobel prize committee, they can give it to whom they like.”

Well, that’s certainly true.

And pasty-puff guy was saying “But he hasn’t done anything yet except be elected. He hasn’t really had time to do anything yet.”

Well, that also seems to be true.

Then I noticed that the Shakira She-Wolf video was playing on another channel, and that seemed a bit more important, so I switched the sound channel to that.  When Shakira stopped with the heavy breathing and the cage dancing (she certainly is limber).   Bonnie and the pundit were still going.  Here’s what they said:

Her: It’s in the gift of the Nobel prize committee, they can give it to whom they like.

Him: But he hasn’t done anything yet except be elected. He hasn’t really had time to do anything yet

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You know who I feel sorry for in all this? Michelle Obama.

Last week Simon and I moved the bed in our room and since the floor slopes so badly in our old terraced house, we had to do some secondary re-inforcement [bodging] so our feet wouldn’t be higher than our heads.   I was less than happy with the stability of the arrangement.  Simon assured me that the stability was fine, I did not agree.

Me: It’s not ok.

Him: It’s fine

Me: How many civil-engineering courses have you had?*

Him: are you trying to pull some kind of “science” rank on me.

Me: Yes (although technically engineering is not science)

So imagine the Obama household.  Some kind of argument or bickering.

Michelle:  I think we should vacation in the Hamptons and not Hawaii this year.

Barack: Are you the President?

Michelle: Well, I don’t really think that’s relevant.

Barack: I think you should seek an alternative path to resolving this dispute.

Michelle:  What?

Barack:  How many Nobel Peace prizes do you have?

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If the Nobel Peace Prize is awared to Barack Obama for potential and a call to action, shouldn’t the real prize then go to the American people.   So that’s about 3 kronor-cents per person or whatever they call it.  By the way, I found more kronor than that when I was going through the glove box of my old car.

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* I’ve had hydo-geology and geo-hydrology (one’s more science slanted, the other more engineering slanted) so in fact I am qualified to determine the porosity and permeability of our furniture.