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Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother is suing a Fort Worth, Texas, funeral home owner who kept the original coffin that held the assassin’s body after it was exhumed in 1981, and then sold the casket at auction last month.
The brother wants the $87,469 paid for the casket by someone who chose to remain anonymous so no one will know what a freaking weirdo he or she is.
Equipment for the home: Prior to about 1850, chairs were seldom used and therefore not designed for comfort.
Ironically, the same can be said about certain chairs retailing for $8,000 at furniture stores on Western Avenue in Seattle.
Excess inventory: It’s been a brutal couple of years for the nation’s homebuilding industry, and the outlook for 2011 isn’t much better.
Economists say it could take three more years before the industry begins building homes at a healthy rate. That must be how long they think it’ll take all those unsold houses in Nevada and Arizona to decompose under the relentless desert sun.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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