3 posts tagged “world”

Imagine my surprise yesterday at hearing WLS label Hugo Chavez as a dictator (again and again and again) in their discussion of Glover taking the acting job.  I guess I should have expected it, being that WLS is the home of Rush Limbaugh in Chicago, but having not listened for months on end to the spew they call news/talk, I suffered a bit of shock.

And then to be insulted because I was surprised and honestly laughed (derogatory, trust me) at the so-called "news" and its "accuracy" wassn't pleasant, either.  Get this: I had to defend myself on why he's not a dictator.  (I should have just told them to prove a negative or to shut up, but ah well.)  I didn't even know where to begin. 

On the spot, I was only able to come up with a few reasons why I liked Hugo Chavez and didn't consider him a dictator (contrary to belief, I wasn't just saying I liked Chavez to be contradictory or difficult):
1. He was elected.  (maybe this was naive of me, given the recent history of dictators and the state of those elections)
2. He's far left, and helps the poor.  (This resulted in clarification: Communist Dictator)
3. He's doing good things for his country (albeit unpopular with D.C. and ignorant [meaning: uninformed] American opinion)

And, uhm, I just plain like the fact that he stands up to the demands of the U.S.

Anyways.  What do you think on the topic? 

I saw this on haruszpapa (via imgs.xkcd.com ) and found it to be GREATLY amusing.

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I hope everyone's been tuning in to Discovery Channel's 11part series Planet Earth.  The final product was produced superbly (they really use camera angles and speed amazingly well, better than any animal/wildlife show I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot) paired with music that makes for a riveting and powerful experience.

I've loved animals my whole life, and most of the animals shown thus far (I've only seen the first two parts) I'm familiar with for the most part, with a few lesser known, and some totally surprised by. 

I loved the part about the volacnoes in the Danakil Depression.  The Okavango river delta in the middle of the Kalahari, Africa.  The highlands of Ethiopia.  All credited to a camera technology usually saved for movie-making.  Thank you, Bank of America and the Nature Conservancy.

Check out the trailer from YouTube, but visit the sneak peak and highlights (my fave is the snow leaopard in the Mountains episode) and the website to get a better idea of how beautiful a series it is.

Sigourney Weaver is the voice, but that must have only been for the first hour.  AFAIK a guy does the rest. Hmm.