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A new sick man of Europe, that’s what The Economist calls my home country in a recent print edition. Yet if you pick a local newspaper the headlines revolve around the issue of an engineering degree that Mr. Sócrates, the prime minister, obtained at an estranged private university.

Mediocre human beings bearing engineering degrees not worth the paper they are written on are not rare, and long ceased to be news in my native hell hole. But Mr. Sócrates is not mediocre, in spite of everything. He is not, and I say this as someone that never was much of a fan of the man. He may have gotten the degree easy, he may have played a bit with the truth, but lets put things into perspective shall we? It makes me sick that with so many much more important issues to worry about people lose time with minor technical details. In the end it boils down to one thing: pure hypocrisy, one of few things we Portuguese people as a whole are competent at.