This morning, while watching the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, I logged onto Twitter and noticed a stark contrast in my Twitterfeed. On the one hand, plenty were excited about the Oscars, tweeting the winners as soon as they were announced. On the other hand there were tweets regarding the current situations in Libya, Iraq, Egypt etc. While people were standing on a stage becoming emotional about winning an award for acting, people clearly living in completely different worlds were emotional about death and freedom. It was at this point that the true message behind the satirical madness of the movie Team America: World Police hit home. (I suggest Kuli Roberts use the film as a reference point for defining satire.) I'm not rich-and-famous-bashing here; it was just amazingly scary how vastly our realities differ at any one point in time - and what a sad moment that can sometimes be for the idealistic: in an ideal world, we'd all have been watching the Oscars.

Ciao, Sindy Peters, Africa editor

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