– “I’ve got apps”: Joshua Persky, who was the subject of a few posts on the old blog, has a new iPhone app, Sell This Pig. He’s also got another business venture, Twisplays. Good for him. Nice step up from the short e-books.
– Bill Freza: Immigration reform and the American Dream. Better than the typical column on immigration, but Freza still swallows the red herring about the need for guest workers “Ph.D.s and business moguls don’t pick lettuce”. “HackensackDave” responds in the comments.
– Related, Matt Yglesias: “The Promise of Foreign Doctors”. Excerpt:
The news that foreign-born doctors trained abroad practicing in America are just as good as US-born and US-trained doctors (US-born doctors who trained abroad are worse, presumably because going to foreign medical school selects for less qualified applicants) is an indication that we have far too few foreign doctors practicing in the United States. Our American doctors are the highest-paid doctors in the world, earning much more than Canadian or French or Dutch doctors, to say nothing of the Indian and Pakistani doctors who tend to emigrate here. And yet our doctors fail to demonstrate the kind of superior performance that would justify this sort of thing.
I often think that if the American Medical Association were renamed the International Brotherhood of Doctors, AFL-CIO that discussion of health care policy in this country might be much-improved. Then perhaps conservative and centrist elites would suddenly recognize that massive medical protectionism is a major impediment to improving productivity in the health care sector.
Good points, aside from the somewhat tendentious swipe at “conservative and centrist elites”. Conservatives (e.g., Dr. Mark Perry) have made similar points.
– Also related, AP: Illegal immigrant crashes, killing Va. nun. Excerpt:
Twenty-three-year-old Carlos Martinelly Montano, who police say is illegally in the country, is charged with drunken driving, involuntary manslaughter and felony driving on a revoked license after the accident on Sunday in Virginia’s Prince William County. Montano was arrested two times before and charged with drunken driving, according to county police, and has also been arrested in separate incidents for other traffic-related offenses. Police say Montano, who is from Bolivia, was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after at least one arrest, and a prosecutor said he knew of at least one other occasion he’d been referred to immigration officials.
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that Montano was released in 2008, pending an immigration judge’s review of his case. As of August 2010, a judge had not ruled on his deportation.
The article notes that the late nun’s order provided social services, including adult literacy and counseling, to illegal immigrants. No good deed goes unpunished.
– Mike Phillips and Stedmeister: “What The Fuck Is My Social Media ‘Strategy’? Making it up so you don’t have to.”. Hat tip to Monkey Pilot for this one, which, as he notes, is “funny because it’s true”.
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