For Christ’s sake, where is Robin Hanson when we need him?? The committee that awards the Nobel Peace prize is as biased as Mike Giberson blogging on Inkling. – [Mike, it's a joke. ]

The committee is composed of five people, all selected by the Norwegian Parliament. Nobel, who was born in Sweden, offered no explanation for why Norway would control this prize and Sweden would award the others, but it’s worth noting that Sweden and Norway were joined in a union at the time. In a history of the prize, Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute in Oslo since 1990, wrote that the values underpinning the prize are a “Norwegian version of Western liberal internationalism.” “Small nations almost instinctively prefer international law for the might they do not possess,” he explained. Similarly, they believe in mediation and humanitarian aid to the poorest and weakest, he said.