Congratulations go out to Jimmy Carter, on winning the Nobel peace prize. It is richly deserved. It's hard to think of any troubled area of the world in the past twenty years where Jimmy hasn't tried to step in and use his clout as a force for good, by arranging negotiations, monitoring elections, or just focusing the spotlight of the press on wrongdoers.

By the way, the Carter Center mentioned in that article is walking distance from our house...