[central_va]

BS. Tacoma Park MD is Berkeley east. They are lunatic liberal hypocrites.

[sphinx]

I didn't say they weren't crazy. I just said that Takoma Park, MD, has a charming historic district and the Sligo Creek corridor, which are both very nice. My grumping here was over the author of the story talking about Takoma, DC, as a wealthy area. Takoma, DC, is not Takoma Park, MD. And Takoma, DC, is not a wealthy neighborhood.

My favorite Takoma Park, MD, story goes back twenty or more years, to the time when the city decided, on humanitarian grounds, to stop putting out rat poison and shift to humane trapping. No one thought to ask what the city would do with the rats once they were trapped. That question naturally came up immediately after the city council had voted. The initial response from someone in city government was that rats were wild animals, so they should be released back into the wild; the spokesman suggested driving them up the road and turning them loose in Frederick County, which still had farms and so could be considered wild territory.

Cooler heads intervened before the shooting started and the city reconsidered humane rat trapping. But you are right about the politics of Takoma Park, MD.