Hun­dreds escape from Afghan jail. More than 470 inmates at an Afghan prison — many of them Tal­iban insur­gents — escape through a tun­nel hun­dreds of metres long, offi­cials say. [BBC News]

The orig­i­nal ver­sion of this escape made for a really good movie. Sadly, the arti­cle fails to men­tion if any of the escaped pris­on­ers were in the habit of bounc­ing a base­ball off the wall of their cell.

I just noticed that the cur­rent Evil Empire has now been “lib­er­at­ing” Afghanistan for almost two months longer than the pre­vi­ous Evil Empire.

How NOT to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. Enough has been said of this year’s win­ner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m not going to talk about him. Instead, I want to pub­licly acknowl­edge some­one who did not win but who I think deserves to be on vol­un­tary­ists’ and other pro-freedom folks’ radar. Osten­si­bly, Peace Prize nom­i­nees’ names are kept secret for 50 years after they are nom­i­nated. How­ever, we have teh Intar­webs now, and it’s a lit­tle tougher to keep a lid on infor­ma­tion like that. Word has been out for a while now that Greg Morten­son was one of the nom­i­nees for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mortenson’s work for nearly the last two decades has con­sisted largely of rais­ing funds much of the year and spend­ing a cou­ple of months each year doing field work in Pak­istan and Afghanistan where he helps com­mu­ni­ties, often extremely remote and poor, build schools and train teach­ers among other things. Not only did he make Korphe’s school a real­ity, but he has since estab­lished or helped sup­port more than 130 schools in these coun­tries serv­ing upwards of 58,000 stu­dents, both boys and girls, and pro­vid­ing an alter­na­tive to extrem­ist madras­sas that pro­mote hatred and war more than pro­vid­ing an edu­ca­tion to their stu­dents. [Fr33 Agents]

Clearly Mr. Mortenson’s com­plete lack of war crimes makes him unqual­i­fied for the Nobel “Peace” Prize.