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"Recall that President Obama got a Nobel Peace prize without doing anything."

Well, he did announce the sending of an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan before picking up his prize.

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Exactly.

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I think they should be funding projects that improve lives. Science and biology explorations without profit motive. Too many liberal arts majors with an agenda in the list. Whiners.

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I don't mind if they choose anyone they want- it's their Fundation (although John D. MacArthur wouldn't be pleased) as long as the public stops referring to these things as "genius " grants. They are woke grants. They are rewarding virtue signalers.

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