August 8, 2025

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Posted by Ann Althouse at 7:12 AM
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8 comments:

Political Junkie said...

Thought it was an orange smiley face emoji.

8/8/25, 7:14 AM
Narr said...

Round is so overused.

8/8/25, 8:20 AM
MadTownGuy said...

I posted this on yesterday's cafe, meaning to post it here:

Mass Exodus From Organ Donor Registries Following Media Coverage (Newsweek)

"Thousands of Americans have removed themselves from organ donor registries following "irresponsible reporting" led by the New York Times, officials said.

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, a trade group that represents 46 of the nation's 55 federally designated nonprofit entities that help facilitate donations, accused the newspaper of a "lack of balance and accuracy" in its recent coverage of the problems in the sprawling transplant system.

The letter, sent to three Times editors on Tuesday, cited two articles from July 20, including "A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk," in which reporters Brian M. Rosenthal and Julie Tate detailed rushed or premature attempts to retrieve organs from patients who were, in some cases, still showing signs of life.

A third recent Times item, an op-ed written by three cardiologists in which they argue for a "new definition of death" to help alleviate the backlog of recipients in need of transplants, was not included in the letter. The essay has gone viral on X, with many users commenting it has made them rethink or actively change their status as organ donors."

Oops.

8/8/25, 8:55 AM
Narr said...

Monty Python was, again, ahead of its time.

8/8/25, 9:06 AM
boatbuilder said...

Mezzrow linked this in the previous open thread. It's very good. Undoubtedly the finest essay about mafhed potatoes ever written.
https://www.astralcodexten.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web

8/8/25, 9:31 AM
Saint Croix said...

NYT tries to convince people that nobody on the left said that Sidney Sweeney was a Nazi, it was a vast right-wing conspiracy to make the left look stupid.

“Republicans are going to just keep hammering this because they know that they can find 13 teenagers on TikTok to say something crazy and then turn it into a two-week-long news story

ha ha

And NPR says the jeans ad is about "the profitability of anger and profitability of hate."

Meanwhile, The Guardian says, Sydney Sweeney is a Republican.

It would be ironic as hell if all the leftist insanity made it safe for Republicans in Hollywood to register as Republicans. I can't imagine a world where journalists ran some headline like, Katy Perry is a Democrat.

We live in a world where millions of Republicans register as Independents so they won't be punished by hate-filled leftists. As more and more people wise up to who the actual bad guys in our society are, there might be a point in my life where Democrat will be a toxic brand, like Communist or Socialist.

Where Are the Normal Democrats?. That's a story I would read.

8/8/25, 11:21 AM
MadTownGuy said...

On X:

"Who's going to pick our crops?"

Tesla: "Juan Deere 3000."

8/8/25, 11:23 AM
Saint Croix said...

Maybe that's why I read Althouse. She's a normal Democrat!

All the batshit crazy Democrats are on the internet -- and the airwaves -- while across the nation we have a "silent majority" of nice Democrats. That's a nice thought.

8/8/25, 11:25 AM

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