2011-06-17

World Energy Flow

from Chartporn, via theBigpicture

2011-06-12

How much food for a house in US? and how many barrels of crude oil? and pounds of whole chicken?

This chart shows how many tonnes of corn a median price new single family home in US can buy between May 1981 and May 2011.

(inspired by (and to compare with) Median Home Price by Ounce of Gold)


Source:
Average Median New Home Price: US Census
Maize (corn) price: Indexmundi

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This chart shows how many barrels of crude oil a median price new single family home in US can buy between May 1981 and May 2011.


Crude Oil price: Indexmundi

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This chart shows how many thousand pounds of whole chicken a median price new single family home in US can buy between May 1981 and May 2011.



Crude Oil price: Indexmundi

2011-06-04

Afraid of missing a bogeyman -- 請讀史。看石頭。

Are the "democrats" in HK afraid of losing a bogeyman if the Chinese government turns nice? or are they just irrationally opposing everything? Writer Lu Li was too nice to the them in this article.

北京破冰,未必「可恥」 - 陸離

不能同意李卓人說,近月北京公安數次接觸一位「天安門母親」,談賠償問題,是「北京做法可恥」。 —我寧願選擇「天安門母親」公開信中一句正面的肯定:「今年終於打破沉默,是值得歡迎的一次。」—難得「對方」終於破冰,無論是多麼微小的一個起點,那麼「天安門母親」和她的支援者,即使只是作為繼續作戰的一種孫子式策略,譬如面對一個「長久有問題的病人」,都好應該首先「讚」他一下,然後再堅持自己必須堅持的其他方面吧?

「天安門母親」,明顯比李卓人成熟有分寸。

我相信李卓人是「忠」的,但是亦甚難忘記22年前,差不多今天這個時候,我們香港剛剛5月21日「反李鵬戒嚴」百萬人大遊行,隨即5月27日「民主歌聲獻中華」約30萬人齊集跑馬地馬會籌得一千二百多萬,次日5月28日香港再次百萬人上街響應「全球華人大遊行」……然後,李卓人就攜帶巨款,飛上北京,支援「保衞」天安門廣場!(當時柴玲是「保衞天安門廣場」總指揮!)

當然,李卓人被扣留了。柴玲等最終決定「有條件、不限期」撤退。「六四」血腥鎮壓之後,不知過了幾多天,李卓人無恙釋放,回港下機,問:「我現在是在香港嗎?」

之前,李卓人和大部份香港人似乎都忘記了:中共中央建國頭三十年,曾經患過「極其嚴重的精神病」,有「暴力」傾向,曾多次「大」發作。鄧小平決定嘗試「摸着石頭過河」改革開放之後,「精神病」有望可能好轉,可惜……

李卓人,請讀史。看石頭。