I think my iPhone is a great invention, made even greater by the many software applications that you can download for it.  But as 95 percent of my cable channels demonstrate, even the greatest inventions can be put to utterly stupid uses. Some of the best-selling iPhone apps fall into that category...

Here's a bit of irony.  School Boards are constituted to operate our public schools, to impart learning to our youth.  And yet, in some parts of the country, it appears that School Boards need to go back to school to learn how to read and interpret the English language for themselves.  The federa...

Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has been thinking about the recent decision by The State Officers Compensation Commission to cut legislative pay by ten percent. Hear Audio Story    There is something to be said for a spirit of shared sacrifice during hard times...

A TEENAGER was allegedly caught having sexual intercourse with a sheepdog named ‘Rosie’ a court heard today (Tuesday). Spiky-haired Thomas Fletcher is accused of breaking into a bedroom - where two dogs had been locked away for their own safety - and carried out two depraved acts of best...

Michael Silence notes that Sen. Jim Tracy is trying to pass legislation that would make it illegal to read or send text messages while driving. These nanny state laws treat symptoms and not problems. My comment on No Silence Here: We don’t need a nanny state! We need better education. IF we wo...

It's always fascinating to see how old laws are interpreted in today's world. Today, the Newsroom Law Blog has some insight on a case where the Maryland Court of Appeals protected the First Amendment rights of anonymous internet posters by overturning a ruling that would've compelled a newspaper to ...

An interesting legal case has just been decided involving a copy of the Declaration of Independence made in 1776. A judge ruled that the copy, made by a public official and sent to public officials, is not a public record. In the summer of 1776, the state of Massachusetts had copies of the Declarati...

3/10/2009: You know the economy isn’t doing to well, when even normally “filthy rich” lawyers now need to actually work hard to make a living (The Hoboken411 Legal Beagle has been too busy to handle any new questions). So... [[ Want to see the rest of the story? Visit Hoboken411.co...

When it comes to the DMCA, it seems that Google has been nothing but a headache. In the past four years of this site, I have lamented Google’s lack of email contact information, developed a hack to get around that, I have faxed a 17-page DMCA notice to their Adsense department (which is separa...

Do any of you know a free program that recovers data off of corrupt iPods? not a demo that makes you buy an activation key after it finds your music and shit please. If not, ITT discuss techonology failing (at inconvenient times)....