Not just anyone can jump the shark yet the entire Nobel committee did so in unison. Spry. Very.

As a previous commenter noted, the deadline for nominations for the peace prize was February 1st. (See http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html) That means that someone felt that merely 12 days into his presidency, Barack Obama was somehow worthy of consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize. Twelve days.

I'm sorry, but as much promise as Obama may yet hold out (and putting aside just how much he has already thrown away), this award seems to have been given to him simply because of who he is and where he is and not because of anything he's actually done besides delivering some feel-good speeches.

The Nobel Peace Prize has jumped the shark. This award was misplaced at the present time. Perhaps later it might have been defensible, but not now. Reading the headline was indeed like reading an issue of The Onion. In fact, if The Onion had published something like this a few weeks back, it would have been hailed as great parody.

See Glenn Greenwald today for more on why some of us think this award is presently misplaced. Copy and paste the link or click my sig: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/09/obama/

But I have a competing theory. Traditionally, cloud computing has always been considered a threat to the classic Microsoft business model -- in which every desktop or laptop or netbook computer user is expected to purchase his or her own copy of Windows and Office. Maybe we should consider this a Machiavellian shot across Google's bow?

That's one of the dumbest things I've read from an employed writer in a long time.

Microsoft has gone way beyond the desktop. Office Live, Microsoft Live Mesh, Office 2010, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live SkyDrive...all of these things and more are part of a push towards distributed computing and trust in MS to maintain uptime and data security. You are woefully out of date.

Microsoft didn't do this, their subsidiary (Danger) did this. Their subsidiary farmed out a system upgrade to a firm who didn't test adequately and then carried out the upgrade without ensuring that a recoverable backup was in place.

Fess up...you're a Machead, aren't ya.

...something of actual consequence to write about, or is Broadsheet planning on appearing on an upcoming episode of Jerry Springer?

This man and his family may be a little "out there", but they are an entirely common kind of "out there."

Stop. Please.

Mr. Leonard, I give up. On reading you that is.

Sir, with all due respect, you have got to be one of the worst writers attempting to cover economic news anywhere. You glom onto utter crap as though it means something. You don't connect the dots. You don't think.

Do you know that the highest rates of economic growth in the United States in at least the last hundred years (and maybe ever) occurred during the midst of the Great Depression? Do you know that the GDP number you just latched onto occurred in a a quarter when the Fed was pumping massive amounts into the economy? When the "cash for clunkers" program was in full swing? Do you know anything at all?

This day-to-day see saw you're on is either a sign of laziness of thought or a sign of a less than sharp mind.

Economic growth could be on a serious rebound? Wishful thinking. You've been there and done that repeatedly over the last year. Do you never learn?

It doesn't matter to me personally what you write or don't write. I just hate to see you do such a disservice to your readers who may not know better than to take you seriously. I do know that I am a reader of yours no longer.

In case folks missed it, Obama twisted a few arms to help see to it that Lieberman maintained his Homeland Security committee chairmanship. And Senate majority leader Harry Reid says that Lieberman is his trusted friend. How can you blame Lieberman when he knows that he can do pretty much whatever he wants and the Wimpocratic Party from the President on down will still kiss his ass?