Incan children were fattened up for a year, drugged, and died of exposure at the height of a religious festival

Fascinating article.  They can tell what the children were fed using much the same technique that allows us to examine hair and tell whether someone used drugs within the last year.

Barbaric customs, to be sure.  Modern irrationalists, of course, kill mostly those who don't believe in their particular brand of irrationality.  And then they call themselves civilized.  And better yet, they don't do the killing themselves--much easier to let others do the killing for them.  As long as the media can stay focused on nonissues like Britney's kids, it can stay culpable as a hand-in-hand partner in the slaughter.