The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Rethinking Child Sacrifice Could sacrificing all the Palestinian children to Jehovah make Jesus come back? There's only one way to find out. CRAIG NELSEN When I asked Peruvian commenter  Aldonichts   to compare the political mood in Peru to that here in the US, this was part of the response, “However, I feel that in the global South, we are even more free and fresh. Europe is for us today just a great museum to visit, and the USA a great amusement park.” Okay, fair enough. But what kind of amusement park? I could easily live in South America. Here’s one of the things I like about it: I was staying in a small hotel in a small town in Venezuela. One evening, I had dinner in a little restaurant near the hotel and it was such a pleasant experience that it quickly became my regular spot. It was a family-run business. Mom was in the kitchen, dad was tending bar, the older kids were waiters, the younger kids bussed tables, grandma collected payments. One evening, I arrived as usual for

Micro- and Nanoplastics Linked to Parkinson’s and Dementia Experts say the new findings add to evidence linking plastics pollution to disease, urge political action to reduce environmental toxins. ***** After 61 years I can still hear the Birds during Spring! *****   That plastic water bottle you regularly drink from could one day decompose into tiny particles that wreak havoc in your brain. New research shows that nanoplastics—microscopic particles broken down from everyday plastic items—bind to proteins associated with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. These stealthy nanoparticles have already infiltrated our soil, water, and food supply. Now, they may pose the next great toxin threat, fueling a wave of neurodegenerative disease. Plastic Cups, Utensils Identified as Risk Factors Polystyrene nanoparticles, commonly found in plastic cups and utensils, bind to alpha-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, the new study from Duke