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If only more disclaimers were like this

April 14, 2008 – 7:35 am

I’ve always been fascinated by disclaimers, they’re so Kafkaesque (in terms of both bizarreness and paranoia). Now if only more disclaimers were so frank and prominent…

(Thanks to Michael Kirk for the tip.)

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Proposed Federal Shield Law: Who Would It Really Cover?

October 16, 2007 – 3:28 pm

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This OpenCongress widget shows what’s happening with the proposed federal shield law.

(NOTE: I’ve cross-posted this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits.)
Today the U.S. Congress is slated to act on H.R. 2102, a proposed federal “shield law” [...]

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