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Currently on the Drudge Report Front Page…

...a Jerusalem Post story about D.C. paramedic Steven Chasin, one of several FEMS employees suing the city because city regulations forbid them to have beards. The dispute's decades old; in 1994, this paper wrote about a similar dispute dating back to 1980. The issue rekindled in 1997, when the department issued a no-beards rule on safety grounds, saying bears interfered with safety equipment. A federal judge initially struck down the rule, but it's still winding through the courts.

UPDATE, 3:17 P.M.: Bah, OK: hat tip to Ryan Grim of the Drudgico...I mean, the Politico!

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  1. #1

    Where's my hat tip!? Bah.

  2. #2

    Those darn bears, interfering with safety equipment.

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