Althouse: At the Tuesday Night Café…

April 11, 2023

At the Tuesday Night Café…

… you can talk about whatever you want.

26 comments:

Dave Begley said...: There will be fireworks both Wed. and Thursday in the NE Unicam. Abortion on Wed. and trans on Thursday. Westbrook Baptist Church from KS drove up.; 4/11/23, 8:45 PM
MadTownGuy said...: The Wrong Take
On Chicago, It's By Any Means Necessary

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The Wrong Take
On Chicago, It's By Any Means Necessary

JEFFREY CARTER
APR 10, 2023
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I am reading on Twitter, and in today’s Wall Street Journal that a Marxist was elected Mayor of Chicago because all the voters who would vote against him moved out.

Mr. Johnson’s margin of victory was about 20,000 votes. How many of the city’s expats would have voted for moderate reformer Paul Vallas? Therein lies an enormous problem for Chicago and other big cities: Left-wing policies are driving away the types of voters and businesses needed for a course correction.

Between 2020 and 2022, about 71,000 people on net left San Francisco—nearly 10% of its population. During the same period, some 503,000 moved out of New York City—about four times the population of Topeka, Kan. High levels of out-migration amount to a political as well as economic brain drain. Cities are losing the voters who keep their leaders from going off the rails.

This is the exact wrong take.

...

Many Chicago businesses might keep a figurehead office in the city, but my guess is there will be a lot of branch offices in other places as the city hollows out.

ADDED DUE TO A GREAT COMMENT BELOW:

I want to be clear. If NO ONE moved, or if everyone that moved out moved back, the outcome of this election would have been the same."

More at the link.; 4/11/23, 9:09 PM
madAsHell said...: There seems to be an increase in mass shootings....St. Louis, Nashville, Washington, D.C. to name a few.

Why do I feel that this is newspapers, and TV spreading this turmoil?; 4/11/23, 10:08 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Jones ,Pearson and Power to the people. Radical Tennessee legislature bites off more than they can chew and gets schooled by the people. Real Democracy in action even in a place of loss cause and wanna be authoritarian rule. Happening around the country, Gen Z alive and on the move.; 4/11/23, 11:02 PM
Mutaman said...: Majority of Americans approve of Trump indictment

Sixty percent of Americans approve of the indictment of former President Donald Trump.; 4/11/23, 11:05 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Doctors Sound Alarm Over Proposed Changes to Definition of Death in Federal Law (Legal Insurrection)

"The proposed changes to the Uniform Definition of Death Act would allow comatose patients to be declared dead for use as organ donors

Amid all the other changes to biological classification we have been treated to under the Biden administration, one is proposed involving the definition of death that is now drawing concern.

The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) has been in law since 1981. The UDDA states:

An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.”

Late last year, a group of lawyers and “experts” met to discuss revisions to the law.

A group of lawyers as well as observers including neurologists and philosophers met Friday and Saturday to discuss potential revisions to the determination. The group, part of the Uniform Law Commission, also addressed updating policies surrounding the notification of families about the process for determining death.

…Brain death is a legal designation in all 50 states. How brain death is determined, which tests are used and the type of physician qualified to make the determination can vary by state, said Thaddeus Mason Pope, a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn.

In recent years, families have objected to doctors conducting brain-death evaluations on their loved ones. Some have filed lawsuits challenging brain-death determinations. And some doctors and lawyers have said guidelines for determining brain death don’t require tests for the loss of function in every part of the brain, such as the hypothalamus, which regulates hormones. The gap between the legal determination of brain death, they said, and the way doctors interpret it could erode public trust.

Prof. Pope and two colleagues in 2020 co-wrote an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine calling for revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act to address these and other challenges.

We have been treated to three years of disastrous consequences when scientific “experts” and their legal supporters decided to implement policy without proper vetting of what they propose. Let’s take a look at the new definition to see if there is reason to worry.

An individual who has sustained either (a) permanent cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or; (b) permanent coma, permanent cessation of spontaneous respiratory functions, and permanent loss of brainstem reflexes, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards."

More at the link.; 4/12/23, 3:44 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: If you ask for something, there’s a good chance the opposite comes to pass.; 4/12/23, 5:02 AM
iowan2 said...: Mutaman said...

Majority of Americans approve of Trump indictment

Sixty percent of Americans approve of the indictment of former President Donald Trump.

And of those, 99% cannot identify the crime, or name the injured party.

As always, polls are commissioned by people that want to create/push a narrative. The only polls that might be close, are internal polls people running for office buy.; 4/12/23, 5:34 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Lucy pulling the football hat trick.; 4/12/23, 5:59 AM
Humperdink said...: > I would suggest with 100% certainty that China will invade Taiwan before President Soiled Pants shuffles off to the assisted living center on Jan 20 2025.

> Compare contrast: Trump was at the top of his game last night with his interview with Tucker Carlson. Sharp as a tack. Biden wandering around the stage looking for the steps. Shaking hands with the wind. No joke!; 4/12/23, 6:28 AM
Humperdink said...: > "French president Emanuel Macron, after a visit to China while the Communist nation was conducting attack drills against Taiwan, said Europe has no interest in pushing the conflict over the island and should become a “third pole” independent of Washington and Beijing." (Michael Goodwin NY Post) Read: Greenlight to China.

> "One of the leaked intelligence documents reveals that (Egyptian) President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, a major recipient of U.S. aid, including military aid, wanted to secretly produce 40,000 rockets and ship them to Russia to be used against Ukraine." (Michael Goodwin NY Post) Another ally sells out the US.

Thanks Brandon!; 4/12/23, 6:46 AM
Nancy said...: Dear Ann, the back and forth in the comments is potentially so stimulating! Can you not give some of us passes to post immediately without moderation?; 4/12/23, 7:11 AM
wendybar said...: Well, isn't THIS convenient??

https://autos.yahoo.com/two-manhattan-da-classmates-hold-084126894.html; 4/12/23, 7:11 AM
Old and slow said...: The long delay in posting comments certainly does change the feel of the place. In my opinion, it loses a lot. I don't miss the moronic back and forth between Drago and whatever LLR he is hating on, but still, the comments are greatly diminished from my point of view. There were a couple of topics recently that would predictably yield some interesting comments, but I just couldn't bring myself to wade through them. Something was lacking. Maybe it is me.

I'm happy just to see the blog continue. If it can't be what I might consider ideal, well, what could be? I'm no doubt better off spending less time here reading comments anyway. I look at my bookshelves recently and realize that I spend more time online doing nothing useful than I do reading (also perhaps not all that useful).; 4/12/23, 7:21 AM
rhhardin said...: Dershowitz says the US is the spokesperson for democracy around the world.

I remember when it was the spokesman.; 4/12/23, 7:22 AM
rhhardin said...: If you ask for something, there’s a good chance the opposite comes to pass.

Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown

I've made an interesting theological discovery.
If you hold your hands upside down then you pray, you get the opposite of what you ask for.; 4/12/23, 7:24 AM
Old and slow said...: Without some element of back and forth, commenting here becomes nothing more than shouting into the void. Not only do your own comments seem pointless, so do the others. Maybe it is just me.; 4/12/23, 7:31 AM
MadisonMan said...: Westbrook Baptist Church from KS drove up
Always helpful (eyeroll); 4/12/23, 7:31 AM
Drago said...: Old and slow: "I don't miss the moronic back and forth between Drago and whatever LLR he is hating on, but still, the comments are greatly diminished from my point of view."

Golly, just how many LLR's are there?; 4/12/23, 8:04 AM
MadTownGuy said...: The Westboro Cult is most often helpful to the demographics they purport to hate. I don't think it's intentional pn their part, but it somehow turns out that way.; 4/12/23, 8:08 AM
Rusty said...: O and S.
Instead of complaining, contribute something you consider enlightening.
And then we'll all make fun of you.
It's a cafe.
I'm planting marigolds.
See?; 4/12/23, 10:56 AM
Narr said...: madAsHell mentioned the novel "Lessons in Chemistry" on another thread. My wife's book club is reading that one, and she told me about the dog narration.

"Does he say stuff like "OOO-ooo-owwrr"?" while stretching, I asked.

No.

"But he has a silly dog voice right?"

No.

"Hard pass."; 4/12/23, 11:02 AM
Old and slow said...: Rusty, I wasn't trying to be enlightening. Just commenting on the new commenting situation. I didn't realize that enlightening commentary was required in a cafe. I thought it was a place to say whatever comes to mind. I always enjoy your contributions, but the world of online commentary does generally inspire misanthropy in me.; 4/12/23, 11:53 AM
Kai Akker said...: I love/hate that Ann Patchett.

Just when I've got her down as a self-absorbed faker whose glib stories are just too pat....

She dishes up a couple terrific ones where I laugh out loud and she even taps an ancient tender memory of mine and I wish I knew her personally.

She is a devil.; 4/12/23, 1:05 PM
Rusty said...: Out here in the beautiful middle class Fox Valley. (The Illinois one. Not yours.) The purple trilliums are up along with May Apples. Not flowered yet, but soon. With a good soaking rain and continued mild weather there should be Morels by this weekend.; 4/12/23, 1:08 PM
Humperdink said...: Old and slow: "I don't miss the moronic back and forth between Drago and ... LLR"

I enjoy thoroughly Drago's humor. I guess maybe that's makes me a moron, but compared to the current President, I consider myself Mensa qualified.

LLR's recent profanity response was worthy of the vulgar Hall of Fame.; 4/12/23, 1:41 PM