:)

Caviar / and cigarettes! :)

Some say it was because Alfred Nobel's mistress cheated on him with a prominent mathematician of the day; but I think the the truth is - Alfred Nobel was secretly 'Big Cake'; and thus he hated Pi.

*laughs*

A noble Nobel theory, Charles Brown, Esq., since any "mistress" of his would have been of the archaic sense since Alfred never married and thus never had a wife, but as for your "cake" and "pi" conjecture, there is simply no denying that Mr. Nobel's "taste" ran much more toward gelatin. ;)

She's a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatin
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime ~ Freddie Mercury, Queen

Help me out here please?

I can only guess that you're reading something "between the lines" of my (infrequent) posts. I don't understand the "right-wing fear bombs" characterization. Would you be willing to cite a few of my specific "fear bombs"? Is my contention that the Nobel nut jobs in Oslo are all phuqued up one of my "fear bombs"?

What you offer is not a "dose" of reality but too often simply comes across as throwing the most extremist right wing fear bombs at people's fondest hopes for a better future, out of some ideological knee jerk reaction to desperately discredit any perceived idea with a liberal taint to it, rather than out of any real concern for constructive dialogue.

"Like all Dems/Libs/Lefties, you're far too sensitive."

Since when is asking for civil discourse being too "sensitive?"

If you're not being mindful of others dignity, than you yourself are part of the problem.

Like all "Righties" you read far too much of what is NOT there into things. You let wild theories based on rampant fear of totally unlikely extreme scenarios happening rule your comments.

The sky didn't fall with allowing gays to participate openly in the military, Humanity did not come to an end with the adoption of gay marriage, Obama the communist Muslim did not take away your guns despite being in office for eight years, government health care really did improve people's lives instead of leading to the socialist downfall of America, global warming is not some vast worldwide scientific conspiracy to take all millionaires out and have then executed, etc etc etc.

now more than ever, we need to reject big cake candidates and promote pie.

Some say it was because Alfred Nobel's mistress cheated on him with a prominent mathematician of the day; but I think the the truth is - Alfred Nobel was secretly 'Big Cake'; and thus he hated Pi.

There is no perceived political bias (yet) in the science awards. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are often awarded to people the right wing does not like, thus the trolling abounds. It is as simple as sour grapes.

Most of the trolling is by those who suffer from acute Dunning-Kruger effect. The cure is usually reading and humility. We don't hold out much hope for you obviously.

As you likely know, the Swedes handle the science prizes, and they pretty much get it right on a regular basis. It's the nut jobs in Oslo that don't seem to understand Nobel's concept of the peace prize, and are damn near as bad on the economics prize.

So the Nobel folks fuck things up once in awhile. It happens. By and large, they get it right. That also happens.

Righties are pissed because it rarely falls to them. Kissinger was one of them, and offered it back after South Vietnam fell.

Obviously, the qualifications for being awarded the Nobel peace prize have - how shall we put it - evolved, somewhat. :)

I think there is a much better argument to be made for honouring MLK in this way than there was with regard to president Obama.

MLK was honoured for his devotion to non-violent protest as a means to overcome violence and oppression and to forge a path to peace. MLK qualifies for this honour.

Like all Dems/Libs/Lefties, you're far too sensitive.

Actually, my comment on the Nobel peace prize was intended to "dishonor" the freaking idiots in Norway who award the thing, not to "dishonor" the rcipients. Please Google it, and tell me if you think the Norwegians are "honoring" the three specific criteria of Nobel's will? Did MLK "reduce the level of the worlds armies", "promote international peace congresses", or whatever the 3rd one was?

Also, you'll possibly note that one of his criteria was NOT "to assassinate people by drone strikes on a daily basis", like unowho did.

These days, very little compels me to comment here.

By way of your first comment in this thread, I believe you did indeed mean to diminish MLK's honour.

I have little time to read and respond on a regular basis to that sort of comment. I miss the old days around here when there was more of chance to take part in a robust discussion and debate of the issues. And much less of a change for comments meant solely to ridicule or insult or diminish.

https://www.austin360.com/entertainment/20170117/peace-through-pie-socials-celebrate-martin-luther-king-jrs-message

Re my motivation, Okay, I suppose to inject a modicum of reality into the lives of people who mostly live in a dream world, would be near the top.

Your turn, what compels you?