A MetaIgnobel Prize for the Bush Administration

This week, the Bush administration sealed another dubious (what else would you expect of Dubya?) achievement. Paul Krugman joins an impressive sequence of Nobel laureates who may be considered critics of the last eight years of US executive power. To varying extent, many of the laureates in the non-natural sciences prizes since 2000 have found fault with this administration. In Economics Joseph E. Stiglitz comes to mind, Harold Pinter in Literature, and notably, two former exponents of the US executive in Peace, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, who, ironically, emerged as Bush's preeminent nemesis. In Italian graffiti, the symbol for down with! is an upside-down W, [as W itself means long live!, apparently a repetition of V for viva! Flipping it is akin to turning your thumb down] like this one

Time for history to flip that most powerful of initials ...