“Days in Rome” Project – October/November 2025
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Life after a lung transplant (c) 2005-2010 Questions, comments? Email me at janeandessie@gmail.com
• UNDER THE old system of distributing livers for transplants, the preponderant factor was how long a patient had been on the waiting list, and black patients were more likely to die than white patients. That's because blacks tend to wait longer before putting their names on the lists.
But since 2002, organs generally go to the sickest patients. And that has made the system more racially fair.
Strangely, though, the change has resulted in a rise in the chances that women will die or become too sick to receive a transplant.
Why the change seemingly has worked against women is unclear, so experts should be hesitant to tweak the policy. Transplants should not be based on race and gender.
Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns (December 30):
It is a fine thing, of a winter’s afternoon, to be a man, a fortunate man, reading in an old Greek’s stately thoughts, out of a well bound book, while the snow falls, pure and decent, and the birds, his friends, come to his door. But only the accidents of life have placed him there, and not in a smoke-filled street where in others’ eyes he might be forced to read his own despairs, his own brute thoughts.
Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY’s List, was named White House communications director by President-elect Obama on Saturday.
Moran, a well-known grassroots organizer, has also managed statewide Democratic campaigns and managed the Wal-Mart corporate accountability campaign for the AFL-CIO.
EMILY's List, one of the most important Democratic constituency groups, says it is "dedicated to building a progressive America by electing Democratic pro-choice women to office."
"It's a shame we have to blow up all these movie stars." "Oh, yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice?", as well as a VP who is like VP Cheney, and President that resembles W (but in a comedic way).