Shackled Thoughts; Blood and Gore

Bit of a Melodramatic title, I know.
 The whole Shackled thoughts thing comes from my inability to think of worth-while creative things to say when I HAVE to (kinda like this blog entry). Maybe it's some sort of deep-seated, subconscious problem I have with authority (haha). Anyways...
   
     Since my group is focusing on a rather morbid subject (human sacrifice, specifically children), I found an article pertaining to said subject that may one-up the gruesomeness of our entire project. However, I stumbled upon it after my failed attempts of trying to find a legit website. I was searching for a museum website or such, something that would contain many of the "victims" we have been researching through our project. However, most government-run websites in South America tend to be in Spanish, and are difficult enough to find in the first place despite the language barrier. I used to know a bit of Spanish. USED to. So yeah, I resorted to this neat tid-bit on what is basically child-slaughter by National geographic.

 Probably the biggest thing I've learned from this required blog prompt is how lacking our Rubric is. While it covers the content fairly well, maybe a bit of organization and grammar/spelling, I think it needs to be more specific to our project, and also requires more focus on referencing and citations.
 While national geographic can't really be critiqued on its referencing (since they are basically just interviews/primary accounts from journalists), it still made me realize what else needs to be included.
     As far as I can see, the content is legit, the layout is fine (like any national geographic online article you would find), there aren't any spelling/grammar issues, there can't be a critique on group work, since its a one-author article and, to my knowledge (although I haven't researched this topic elsewhere at all) the content accuracy also seems fine.

 I just wanted to mention some of the comments I read on the article itself. Hopefully I don't offend anyone, and if I do, well.... too bad.
     Somehow the judgements of the modern population being passed to a past culture accused of child massacre/torture quickly became a highly political discussion based around the current controversies of abortion. I'm sorry people, but there's a time and a place for everything, and while everyone needs to keep a clear head, comparing abortion to a brutal act of sacrifice that occurred en mass is outright idiocy. There were some good points brought up with people explaining that we need to view this ancient cultures actions through their eyes, not from our own westernised view point. As far as I'm concerned, the ridiculous right-wing, overbearing religious zealots commenting about abortion can take their arguments back to their bible-study class, or whatever other fictitious religious literature they gawk over.
     K, venting complete

***PS: I'm not saying every religious person shares this view point; believe whatever you wish, I can respect that, just don't push ridiculous and biased beliefs on others, especially when that belief can adversely effect another's life.