A recently delivered opinion of the Iowa Supreme Court does a bit to redress the power inequity between landlords and tenants that's worth a nod. We here in the Dougloid Towers are not unsympathetic to the problems of tenants, as we grew up in...

From Radio and TV News, Feb, 1958. The first announcement by Radio Moscow indicated that there were two transmitters in the satellite (launched October 4, 1957-ed.), one operating at 20.005 mhz and the other at 40.002 mhz. The pulse of each signal was...

I think we're all familiar with the Supreme Court's infamous Kelo v. City of New London decision, in which the Supreme Court held that as long as a taking of private property bore an (arguably) rational relationship to a legitimate governmental...

Der Spiegel informs us today that German cops have discovered that Jan Ullrich, retired former cyclist and Tour de France winner, made at least 24 trips to the home of Doctor Eumianto Fuentes, a/k/a Doctor Steroid. Ullrich also paid Herr Doktor...

One night in the hangar, way back past the statute of limitations the crew was installing the wing planks on an ex-Federal Express Falcon 20 freighter. It was part of a five or was it ten? year tank and plank inspection. The planks had been treated and...