We’ve mentioned it briefly before, but several readers have written in to ask us to comment further, and we have to say that this is now officially fairly ridiculous. On Saturday the Post ran a whole feature article on the campaign of some Columbia Heights residents to bring a Whole Foods Market to the new Target/Best Buy development at 14th Street and Park NW — a plan that has been stalled over disagreements concerning dedicated parking for the grocer. The “movement” even has signifcant space over at ColumbiaHeightsNews.org.

Listen, we enjoy paying $14 for carryout curried chicken salad or $3.99 a lb. for organic bell peppers as much as the next guy. There’s nothing like popping into a Whole Foods every so often to get your mouth watering and your wallet wondering how the hell you just spent $50 on ingredients for a single meal for two people. Whole Foods is a fantasy land of health and convenience, and we’re sure glad they’re here in the District. But that’s just it. They’re already here.

As we’ve felt compelled to point out in the past, the Logan Circle store is only 1.65 miles from the site of the proposed Columbia Heights market. Is the Parrano cheese situation in this city really so desperate? Of course it’s not, and sadly, the Post article spells out all too clearly the class and race-based tensions underlying much of the thinking behind the people trying to coax the store into opening.