Contador stays eight seconds ahead of Schleck. That just may be enough. Tour De France: Stage 17, Route Maps & Results | Cyclingnews.com.

There’s a great article in the latest issue (August 2010) of Wired about stress. The article’s not yet online, but it’s entitled “Under Pressure,” and it describes how the stress of those working in a bureaucracy can be particularly difficult. The article refers to a studies of British civil servants, part of the vast Whitehall…

I wrote recently about a tour of a tiny house in Wisconsin. There’s a story and video at Yahoo! about a man who, liking the idea of a tiny house, started a company that manufacturers them. The company is named the

In May, seeking to assess the strengh of political charges that Tea Party protesters are racists, Reason.tv went looking to see what they could find. Lots of protesters, many with views different from the libertarian Reason, but they found no racists among the group. Lawful protests against an incumbent administration may have many of motivations,…

Sometimes even the most malevolent acts have an absurdity attached to them. That would be true about allegations against a septuagenarian blind man who may have had someone post an ad on Craigslist for a bomb. Here’s the allegation against an elderly Wisconsinite: The husband of a former Dane County Board member faces a possible…

One often hears that public servants give their time and effort to create a better community. Typically, one hears this from the politicians and bureaucrats who describe themselves as public servants. With all that dedication and attention, it’s not too much to hope that fewer of the goods purchased with taxpayer money would be lost.…

There’s a story at the Journal Sentinel entitled, Wisconsin candidates’ cost-cutting plans don’t add up. Jason Stein summarizes the candidates’ proposals: Candidates for governor are sharing more of their plans to slice spending to help balance the state’s struggling budget, but they’re making promises they could find difficult or even impossible to keep. Milwaukee Mayor…

The last decade saw an explosion in federal spending, under a Republican administration, exceeded in scope and destructiveness by the amount of spending of the current Democratic administration. Following widespread pledges that Republicans would be different this time, billions upon billions later, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker unveiled a plan not to fill four thousand…

There are countless endangered species of plants and animals. One way to preserve those species from extinction is to make private ownership of endangered animals illegal (except for zoos, perhaps). Despite these efforts, often decades long, many animals that were endangered remain so. John Stossel’s offered a solution to this problem: allow widespread private ownership…

I once posted a story about an adult man who called 911 while drunk to complain that his mother took away his beer. Even that shiftlessness pales in comparison to a recent story from Georgia. In the new case, an adult man allegedly held his mother hostage at gunpoint for six hours because she would…

There’s a story at the Janesville Gazette‘s website entitled, Democrats Split Over How to Defeat Ryan about the search for a candidate to run against 1st Congressional district Representative Paul Ryan. Democratic officials have found no wealthy, self-sufficient candidates to run, and have less than a week before the filing deadline. One possible challenger, Paulette…

Some readers may live in places where no one’s ever heard of cricket spitting. If you’ve not heard of this fine custom and competition, you can learn all the basics from a story at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel entitled, County fair’s contest is cricket: Distance spitting has age brackets, lots of participants.” Karen Herzog of…