Eugene Volokh makes a point that's long been a gripe of mine: The assumption that it means something when a person is "nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize." I'm not sure it even means a lot when someone actually wins one…or at least it hasn't since Henry Kissinger did. But just being nominated for the Nobel is not like being nominated for an Oscar or an Emmy. It means one person out of hundreds of thousands has put the name up for consideration.