"Mr. Jobs - Don't Tear Down This House!"

Our headline should be read with the best Reagan intonation you can muster.

Sigh, well, here we go again. Today's a big day for Apple chieftain Steve Jobs who has been fighting a long drawn out battle to tear down a house he owns in posh Woodside, California.

It's a beaten up, 17,250 square foot Spanish colonial mansion built by a San Francisco copper king and now in deep disrepair as Mr. Jobs, who favors the new and streamlined over the old and leaking, seeks to replace the structure with a fresh one of his own - presumable one you can blow into and play like a flute (you have to have an iPhone to understand that one).

He bought the rancho in 1984 and wants to level it but preservationists say hey, what about the antique organ, lavish fittings, and other stuff only antique people know about and love that are still inside.

Jobs said "come and get 'em" - just take the house with you when you leave. Today the Woodside town council will reconsider Jobs' longstanding request to level the 84-year-old structure, which many say was left to rot in place.

Antiqueswest.com doesn't have room for the organ, but we'll take the sinks and other fittings, Steve - huh? Pretty please?