I'd like to place a phone call to the Oxford English Dictionary and propose that they use this example to define avarice - from an article about the new upscale Lake Las Vegas communities.

More often than not, however, any resemblance to the Mediterranean is accidental. Lois and Don Borsack's 10,000-square-foot $3.5 million Tuscan-style villa, for example, has 22 televisions, seven electric-flame fireplaces and a dog park with built-in misters not to mention an elevator with paw-activated buttons.

Instead of a formal dining room, a motorized glass table sits in the middle of the living area; it is raised and lowered at the push of a button, to accommodate cocktails or dinner. There are four kitchens, although the house has only three bedrooms. "The ironic part is, I don't remember the last time we cooked," said Ms. Borsack, the retired owner of a chain of luggage stores.

You know I'll accept the doggie elevator as an extravagant convenience. But 22 TVs! Four kitchens and they don't cook!

Did I mention the sin of pride as well by having the balls to advertise their disgusting waste of money in a newspaper read by over a million people? I'm almost thinking of joining the Socialist Workers Party.

And here's the kicker, this family made their money by selling their company, El Portal Luggage (a business owned by their parents/grandparents since 1936), to Wilson's Leather in 2000 which turned around and closed all the stores a couple of years later. Who knows how many hundreds of people lost their jobs so that the Borsacks could have their doggie elevator.

Congratulations Lois and Don!