Positive de-action

Educafro is an organization in Brazil that is promoting the racial quotas to be established in public universities thinking that will solve racial minorities disparities. I cannot begin to believe how somebody can buy this argument! I mean, establishing the necessity that a racial minority such as indians or blacks need their own special quota to get into an university is saying that their are not as mentally able as the other students who don't need quotas! We could begin by asking what is a race, what is it to be black? Is there going to be someone who's going to look at my skin and say I'm black?! No, it seems you can define yourself however you want to. What if somebody wants to take advantage of this, somebody who is just a little tanned and marks himself as black, what then? Genetic studies of races reveal that there is no such think as a black or white race and that the polymorphisms are much greater than that. This quota politic is pure demagogy! It's just to divert attention to the real problem: the lack of a decent public elemantary and high schools that would naturally raise students who would be capable of going through university admission tests just like any other person. Goverments in the past decades have been seriously dismantling the whole public education: giving lousy wages for teachers, students are so badly prepared that sometimes they can get to eighth grade not knowing how to read!!!!!

Self-inflicted diseases

I talked about this a while ago, one in four doctors in the UK are starting to think the same thing: Should we pay for self-inflicted diseases such as lung cancer and cirrhosis... As I mentioned in my post, I think there might be something good out of it if, and only if, you ensure free treatment to whomever is engaged in trying to stop their addiction.
Source: Kevin M.D. weblog