The Temple of Literature in Hanoi.
Don’t kill those Nobel Peace Prize hopes just yet.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is eager for talks to resume between President Donald J. Trumpet and North Korean Supreme Leader “L’il Kim” Jong un and pointed to the cancellation of U.S.-South Korean military exercises as an act of good faith. If I were Moon, however, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Read MoreStudy for Norman Rockwell’s “Murder in Mississippi,” an illustration that accompanied a June 29, 1965 Look magazine article about the June 21, 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Photograph by Louie Lamone. From the Norman Rockwell Museum.
If you’re a blogger, these are boon times. Every day seems to bring a fresh controversy, a breaking news story.
Read MoreAnd now a word form the Land of the Rising Sun and Sanrio’s Hello Kitty.
Dear Nobel Committee-san,
It is with the utmost humility and civility in that decorous but still somehow aloof Asian manner — not to mention the teensiest, weensiest bit of arm-twisting by the White House — that I write to you to nominate President Donald J. Trumpet of the United States of America and Chairman L’il Kim Jong-un of North Korea for the Nobel Peace Prize — the committee’s answer to the Miss Congeniality Award.
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