Congratulations to Harold Pinter

If there was some person on the planet you think would win a Nobel Prize for Literature, it would be him. And this year he won the award.

An added bonus is the additional salt this pours in the wounds of the arm-chair war enthusiasts:

One of the most influential British playwrights of his generation, Pinter in recent years he has turned his acerbic eye on the United States and the war in Iraq.

He has been an outspoken critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and vehemently opposed Britain's involvement in the war. He told the BBC in an interview in February that that he would continue writing poems but was taking a break from plays.

"My energies are going in different directions, certainly into poetry," he said.

In 2003, Pinter published a volume of anti-war poetry about the Iraq conflict, and in 2004 he joined a group of celebrity campaigners calling for Blair to be impeached.

"I'm using a lot of energy more specifically about political states of affairs, which I think are very, very worrying as things stand," he said.

I'm sure Moron Junction will be pissed today. But if I were them, I'd be taken affirmative action to stem Jon Podhoretz's hirsuitedness.