Who Mattered in 2007?

Time.com has put up their list of people who mattered in 2007. I thought I'd share a few thoughts on their choices. In no particular order:

Burmese Monks

Religious devotion used peacefully to bring about change, awesome. While the crisis in Burma isn't over yet, I hope the world will be able to take home the message that non violent resistance can truly be effective, especially when the press chooses to report on it. So come on press, let's encourage non violent religious peace movements all over the world not just in the Far East by actually featuring them in our media outlets!

Hugo Chavez

In the fall semester, I participated in a production of Julius Caesar. At some point, I started thinking about where I would set the play if I was given the chance to update it in the modern world. Chavez is so much like Shakespeare's Caesar, a man who came to power with a lot of potential to do good, but whose desire for power ruined him. (And the nerd award goes to...ME, for most poetically cliche Shakespearean political comparison!)

Miley Cyrus

Really, Time magazine? Really really now? Trying to win yourself some tweenie readers by picking nearly the only teen sensation that hasn't committed some kind of cardinal sin? I'm disappointed.

Alberto Gonzales

Amnesiac jerkface.

Don Imus

Frankenstein racist jerkface. Now, why did he matter again?

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton

Regardless of their politics, I am glad to see them both generating such a huge buzz amongst voters. They're not the first democratic candidates of their kind, but they're the most recognizable. Here's hoping to more generations of the diverse faces of America actually having a shot at winning, if not yet winning, the presidency.

Radiohead

Kind of an obvious throw toward hipsters, and I appreciate the effort, Time magazine.

Britney Spears

I no longer appreciate your efforts, Time magazine.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Yeah, he's pretty important. Right wing froggie jerkface.



Yes, my cheapie photoshopping of the image above is in homage to Perez Hilton's blogging style. Is my shallowness showing?