Learned a new word today - "toniest"

WW and many of their target audience think that whatever income they themselves make is appropriate and justified, but anyone making more than they do somehow doesn’t deserve it or didn’t earn it honestly.

And, anyone earning less than they do is somehow being exploited. They don’t understand how value is created, so they envy those who earn more, and pity those who earn less than themselves.

The problem is not that people simply want more money for themselves but rather that they want to take it away from those who have more of it.

"Greed is bad enough, eating away at a person's soul. But envy is far worse because it destroys not only individuals, but also communities, poisoning relations as everyone attempts to use the state to live off everyone."

There's another, indirect cost of playing up the politics of envy. Anyone seriously interested in the plight of the poor should be more concerned with expanding Greater Portland's economic pie than stealing additional funds from those who are economically successful.

Never feel entitled to anything that you did not work you butt off to achieve. If you want to live in a "tony" neighborhood, work your butt off.

I wish Cameron Whitten would take the party up to Dunthorpe. I think you'd hear a different tune from WW in that event.

Bojack calls it "reckless skateboarding." Bojack's computer must not allow him to use YouTube and/or read the line about how the skater interviewed for the piece followed every rule of the road. Or maybe Bojack doesn't think you should afford people the same rights to use the roads even when they're following the law.

"Everyone knows gated communities are evil, right? So let's call Arlington Heights a gated community!"

"But, it has no gates."

"Even better! We'll call it a gated community with no gates! They'll never live that down."

That is my bike route UP the hill. Have never seen anyone of them stop at a stop sign.

Think it may have something to do with their readership demographic?
Yup. Just like the Oregonian.

Say Martian...
Do those skateboarders obey all traffic signs ?

One wonders if the majority of skateboarders pay taxes, or just live off of what other people pay. Those other people could even be mommy and daddy.

For over five millennia the "silver backs" of the tribe/village/island/government/privileged have wanted to install civility and "self-control" into the young and daring.

Fortunately for humanity, the "silver backs" have consistently failed at this goal and they soon die off.

Is this attorney the Eric Nagle from the Federal Prosecutor's Office of those who demand obedience and order?

Finally! Another neighborhood gets hit with the dirt clods of shame - where the residents are protected from the peasantry by gateless gates??? Ah well, the kind of Intellectual heft displayed in the WW article reminds me of my kids' bickering when they were in junior high. They knew just enough big words to sound impressive, but their thoughts quickly devolved into childish gibberish - "it's not fair" and "she got more than I did!". Every parent's dream - the child who refuses to grow up.

Martin, you state: "Bojack calls it "reckless skateboarding." Bojack's computer must not allow him to use YouTube and/or read the line about how the skater interviewed for the piece followed every rule of the road"

However, I must have watched a different video than you. Going to the neighborhood assoc post

http://www.arlingtonheightspdx.org/uncategorized/city-council-to-consider-ban-on-skateboarding-in-arlington-heights/

we see the YouTube link is actually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5_-UWewRg

And it is blatantly obvious they are not following the rules of the road.

Wow, teenagers not following the rules of the road for "kicks" - were thay doing a "chickie run"?

I'll bet if you go stand by those stop signs for an hour, you'll find that the neighbors in their cars don't stop either. Let's ban them

And those stop sign running bicyclists too

It's call Darwinism, folks