European Union wins Nobel Peace Prize

[minionofmidas]

Joke Prize.

[minionofmidas]

Joke Prize.

Well it seems slightly more warranted than giving it to Barack Obama.

That's when and how the Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark and joined the ranks of the Swedish State Bank Prize for Bad Economics Created Specifically to Insult the Memory of Alfred Nobel in the realm of "prizes you'd want to avoid for the life of you if the prize money wasn't so good".

[minionofmidas]

I would probably have given it to the Tunisian People.

[minionofmidas]

I wonder how the Greeks feel about it, especially as the European Union's austerity push has fatally wounded Greek democracy and caused open rioting in the streets.

The last 39 years is the longest time Greece has gone without wars, coups or civil wars since Greece was founded in 1822.

You must be referring to the 38 years before last year.

[minionofmidas]

I was referring to the EU-sponsored coup d'etat...