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中央四套今天的海峡两岸讲到一件有意思的事情，台湾去年参加高考的考生只要获得11分就有大学可以上。台湾去年一百万余考生的录取率达到了96.24%。 吕秀莲这个看了就让人作呕的老太婆惺惺作态的说台湾的教育“搞得太糟了”“对不起下一代”，不知道这教育到底是不是他们台湾当地政府管的…… 台湾的政局混乱也就罢了，不知道为什么教育也搭上了被大陆批判的顺风车。

再说道大陆的问题。其实这集海峡两岸对台湾的描述（以及这种明显的隔岸观火看热闹的态度）也只不过是五十步笑百步罢了。大陆的教育又好到哪里去了呢？最近几年来高考不断扩招，中国的大学生已经要变得像高中生一样不值钱，遍地都是，不知道为什么大陆的主流媒体还好意思拿台湾的笑话来说事；有点搬起石头砸自己的脚的嫌疑。10年之前有个笑话，说楼上扔块石头砸到五个人，其中三个是经理；这两年有个笑话，说楼上扔个石头砸到一片，5个民工8个大学生。

台湾的例子不应该被这么客观的谈，咱们没有这个资本。说到底，咱们跟台湾终究得是一根绳上的蚂蚱，最终台湾还是得回归的。咱们不如好好想想办法，好好教育改革，把自己的教育系统给摆正位置了，也为台湾回归做个准备。别到时候台湾回来了还得一国两学制，麻烦。除非中国政府就想跟台湾这么耗着了。其实也没啥，要我说该怎么着就怎么着吧，犯不着跟政府的老爷们急。

Dun feel like writing anything after I have read this review, so I just quote this review here:

                                                              cheers for losers

     Our age is a winning age. Every self-help book, from home and abroad, shows you the way to the top. Every competition, online or on TV, displays the benefits of being a winner. Every parent, married or divorced, pushes the kids to be N.O.1. Every company, national or international, forces itself into the Fortune 500 list. Every country, big or small, desires to be powerful enough to devastate others. If you win, you are crowned and regarded as a role model to all. If you lose, congratulations, you’ve got another name: LOSER.
　　We live in an age of winner-manic and loser-phobia. That is what distinguishes this film: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Instead of being one more orchestrated anthem dedicated to the winning group, this film is a carnival about living, fighting and forgeting of the losing team.
　　Basically, here we have no winners: a kinky drug-abusing hippie(the grandpa), a pretentious jumpy speaker(the father), a smoking desperate housewife(the mother), a listless out-of-love gay scholar(the uncle), an ambitious silent brother and finally Olive, a plain-looking pre-mature seven-year-old girl.
　　It’ll be boring to keep nagging about losing and how to lose. LMS spotlights human beings’ reactions to a set of chaos. At moments of disillusions, this dysfunctional family choose to move on and forget about the pains and the past. These sorry but laughing-to-tears moments are Uncle’s failing suicide, Brother’s vow to silence, Father’s boastful fallacy about almost anything, the microbus’ interval breakdown, Uncle’s embarrassment of running into his ex, the bankruptcy of Father’s biz plan, Grandpa’s sudden death, again, Brother’s discovering himself as color blind and finally, Olive’s outrageous performance as a finale…Such are days of our lives, to name just a few.
　　As the audience, you laugh with them, and shed tears with them because you see your own lives in this film. People are so apt to be unhappy. Even if you’ve already been a millionare, just imagine one day you get a little problem, you will be troubled and annoyed. That is, even if you have 1,001 reasons to be happy, yet with only one tiny little nuisance, you will be sad or pessimistic. That is human nature.
　　LMS teaches us how to deal with our failure and to move on. There could be one day when the one you love would walk away because of somebody else, when your well-designed strategy failed to attract investors or clients, when the elaborately-prepared dinner pissed off the senior, when your dearest family left without saying goodbye, when there were only a slim chance for your dream of a lifetime, when everybody laughed at your art deco. We have to keep punching. Grandpa encourages Olive by saying "A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try. " We lose with dignity and pride, most important of all, losers with dreams and action are not real losers.
　　Beauty Pageant, Singing Competition—Miss Blah blah blah, Universal Idol, Supergirls or Superboys, we just live out of the main stream benchmark. We don’t deliberately say no to the monotonous unanimous standard. We just despise the regular cheap smile and uniformed kidult dress and gestures. Don’t be bothered by others’ label on you: cynic, superfreak or weirdo — "Do what you love and fuck the rest."(still remember: "Fuck the regulations!" — From The legend of 1900 )
　　Martin Luther King shouted "… …I have a dream today." I am shouting in the same way that everybody has a dream. Suede sings ‘Everything Will Flow’. Well, everything will flow, except our dreams.

最近我发现我就一特容易满足的人。一点儿芝麻绿豆大小的事情就高兴的不行了。刚才上网，发现百度google都能搜到我的blog，一下子我就happy了，不光happy,还很happy.

没事做贴图如下：

今天见到了自崔永元神经衰弱引退之后最没有营养的实话实说：《奥运我们穿什么》。我想说，我靠，人家穿什么你中央台管这么宽干什么啊？！这不就是闲着没事做，惹是生非找打嘛？

一群同样没有营养的嘉宾和完全没有内涵的主持人在演播厅里讨论着礼仪小姐应该穿什么，礼仪先生应该穿什么，我国运动员应该穿什么入场，颁奖嘉宾应该穿什么颁奖；一群市井小人在台上堂而皇之的决定2008北京奥运会我们穿的衣服应该向各国展示我国文化的精髓。有人说礼仪小姐得穿旗袍，结果有人反对说这像是宾馆的小姐……这事儿对事儿不对人，中国人从殖民地时期到改革开放之前，甚至于到近些年来，旗袍之于女性都是以合体，优雅，高贵而著称；这丫的看到旗袍只想到宾馆小姐还脱口而出不知道是不是因为平时看多了。

一北京大叔穿一汉服到了演播厅，也不知道是不是为了标新立异；说老实话我一直就不明白，你说那衣服大袍大摆的穿着人能舒服吗？ 北京天气不是还正热着？ 穿着么多出门不热死丫挺的…… 此事暂且压下不表，说说大叔的提议，大叔说，我作为颁奖嘉宾就应该穿这个。额，人颁奖的还有外国人呢……你要人奥委会主席罗格穿汉服，我是没有意见。但是人家周瑜打黄盖还得一个愿打，一个愿挨，你说对吧。丫的在场上憋了半天，憋出来一句“弘扬中国的民族文化”……一直听说中央台选择进入演播厅的观众一定得是政治上upright，思想上进，紧随gcd，简而言之就是又红又右，在我昨天发的test里一定得分负债累累的；没想到牢记党的教诲，太阳最红毛主席最亲的大叔连句话都说不清楚，还颁奖呢……  另外想到，当年中国某位皇帝（我历史学的不行……）不是还觉得传统服饰不利于运动，提倡胡服骑射呢；咱们怎么好的不学，专门走回头路呢……

然后就没耐心看了，一则中央台管的太宽，二来我一直觉得实话实说应该是针砭时弊，和社会中的不良现象做斗争的节目，没想到他们自己倒也成了现象之一……一直以来，只听说了奥运会的口号是：更快，更高，更强。你应要给它安上一个“更漂亮”，这算什么呢？

有一套测试题可以测试一下你是左派还是右派，还是北大未名的bbs上的，据说。有点意思，我的测试结果如下：

政治立场坐标（左翼<->右翼）0.45，经济立场坐标（左翼<->右翼）0.45，文化立场坐标（保守<->自由）1

颇有意思，大家可以试一下，地址是http://blog.farmostwood.net/politics_bdwm

另外有一套英文的，查的东西差不多，感觉更global citizen一些，没有局限于中国国情，也可以说是更客观一些吧。但事实上，总体来说英文的题目更主观一些，问题有时候对对问题的反应有影响，这一点不太好。

我的结果如下：

Economic Left/Right: 0.38，Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

这个测试小有点意思，说明我的思想在Gandhi和Friedman（这是谁，没听过……）之间。

地址是http://www.politicalcompass.org/test