comments encouraged..: this week i

attended the washington dc r users group meeting. learned webscraping - systematically extracting data from websites. powerful, but most of its uses seem borderline illegal, like capturing hospital data when you're supposed to buy it.

generally dislike campaign finance laws, but thought twice. 'corporations are legal fictions. they have no opinions of their own to contribute and no rights to participate with equal voice or vote in politics.'

understand why b.p. franchise owners might not replace certain sign bulbs.

presented a poster outlining the key findings in our medicaid expansion population brief at the academyhealth conference, a.k.a. health policy disney world.