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Saturday, August 4, 2007

POFP on HuffPo!

Your faithful correspondent is now featured on the Huffington Post, commenting on Congress's attempt to redefine discrimination. What Congress is trying to do is increase the Statute of Limitations for employment discrimination cases -- about which reasonable minds may differ -- but their tactics are abominable. Rather than come straight out and change the limitations period, Congress proposes to change the definition of discrimination to the point of meaninglessness. Under Congress's definition, "discrimination" occurs any time an employee receives a paycheck or any other benefit, the amount of which may have been affected by an act of discrimination at any time in the employee's career, no matter how long ago.

Speaking of incomprehensible things, people at technorati say I have to put the following into a blog post:

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