Intelligence wins out!

U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III has decided the controversial case concerning the teaching of the so called intelligent design (ID) in public schools. He defined ID as being creationism relabeled:

By comparing the pre and post Edwards drafts of Pandas, three astonishing points emerge: (1) the definition for creation science in the early drafts is identical to the definition of ID [intelligent design]; (2) cognates of the word creation (creationism and creationist) which appeared approximately 150 times were deliberately and systematically replaced with the phrase ID; and (3) the changes occurred shortly after the Supreme Court held that creation science is religious and cannot be taught in public school science classes in Edwards.

and that intelligent design isn't science at all.

After a six week trial that spanned twenty-one days and included countless hours of detailed expert witness presentation, the court is confident that no other tribunal in the United States is in a better position than are we to traipse into this controversial area [and] . . . in the hope that it may prevent the obvious waste of judicial and other resources which would be occasioned by a subsequent trial involving the precise question which is before us.

Intelligent design, as well as creationism, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they can not be tested. Their axioms are based on authority, revelation, or religious belief.

source: NEJM 2006 Volume 354:2277-2281.

Human rights

Human rights by far are the most misunderstood rights humans have. These are the most basic rights. We have to defend them at all costs for everyone, because in that is its only argument, the basic right any human should have. People tend to forget that.
So when in Brazil hundreds of inmates start rebellions (which the government in the first place "allowed", by letting them use cell-phone within prison walls to say the least), and they start to do ugly things people just want them shot down...
First of all, to let these rebellions happen was a very stupid thing and it seems, completely avoidable. I mean the state has power to control the inmates very well, but it doesn't do so due to lack of control, of planning, of sheer stupidity, or just members of the government don't care as they are too busy stealing money for themselves.
Now just because one thing is wrong (our loss of the right of security, and to go where we please), when these rebellions happen doesn't mean we can commit another wrongdoing (taking out their human rights). One wrong doesn't justify another! When a government enters into a war situation within its borders or there is political anarchy, one of the first things that risks being lost is the very human rights people so easily tend to forget, exactly for these same people. Which is why society must be very firm and united in relation to its rulers about human rights. That it is an outrageous atrocity to not abide by them.
Second, things should never have been allowed to get this far. People should have access to education! I think this is the main issue. Governments want stupid masses so they can do with them as they wish, but this is the side-effect: unemployment, and mass criminal ratings. So deal with it! Nobody ever wants to start a change in this trend. It would be something for so long in the future it doesn't have any electoral value. I've already stated before the elected people govern to be elected again!!!! Who would want to spend money on something that would take at least 30 years to give fruit and perhaps to a politician who will be on the spot 30 years from now. Nobody wants that, besides the already stated fact that educated masses are much harder to control. So deal with it!
What to do with so many unemployed and so many people in jail right now? That's an unanswearable question... We have to make do with what we have. But it would be imperative to revert the trend, otherwise instead of looking at a distant future with maybe a little light at the end of the tunnel things could get even worse.