Monday, June 12, 2006

when talking with a friend via im about western countries' "oil discrimination" on china, i.e. the accusations that china is developing relations with "hooligan" countries for oil, he used a rude joke to explain his views:

they have chased "street meat" when they were poor, now they can afford nicer hookers and grabed all of them, and they start to lecture us on how dirty those "street meats" are?

链接羞辱与歧视拦住抗艾进程

sorry for the rude language, but i find it reveals quite a lot of the sentiment on the oil politics here and, the joke is concise and colorful, isn't it?

 

posted @ 8:29 PM

又是一年高考时,几家欢喜几家忧。

前天与某富人(即爆发户)吃饭,席间电话不断。某富人为了让他孩子能考上如意的大学,忙着与各路“关系”打招呼,连饭也顾不上吃。当然,富人能有什么招呢,无非是塞钱而已。

夹起一块鱼肉,某富连连摇头感叹:“差10分还能用钱搞定,10分以外就无能为力了。”也难怪某富如此沮丧,在他眼中,有钱就能“搞定”一切,社会哪有公平可言。高考只看孩子的表现,从这个角度,富家和贫苦家庭的子弟,甚至也包括权贵世家的孩子们,都是站在了相对公平的机会之门前。

尽管有这样那样的缺陷,高考作为一项制度所蕴涵的基本理念,在现时中国还是灼灼生辉,值得人们效仿。相比之下,以钱、权、地域、所有制、意识形态等来锁定不同的机会,何优何劣,不言而喻。

 

posted @ 12:42 PM