A local TV station is having its pre-Halloween Addams Family Show marathon. This, of course, leads to the annual comments from the wife about how she thinks the Munsters were better than the Addams Family. I’ll only admit that the Munsters had really cool cars, but the rest was lame as compared to the Addams Family. The best part of the mid 1960s sitcom for me was the Addams’ ...

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"You don't know what you got till it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." -- Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi. Okay, so it's not exactly paving paradise per se, but a developer in Sioux Falls, S.D. is planning to demolish a 129-year-old gothic-style mansion in the city's cathedral district to make way for a used car lot, according to a story reported on KELO TV. The home was ...

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One of my favorite magazines is The Week. It's kind of like Time or Newsweek, but way more informative and entertaining. It aggregates news from all over the world into one 50-page glossy package, complete with a crossword puzzle, celebrity news and a feature called "Best Properties on the Market." Often, these homes are multimillion-dollar palaces, though the editors often include a "steal of the week" in the $300,000 price ...

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