Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

This is the best thing I've read in a long time. I wish I had written it.

To the editor:

How many ways can you try to glamorize a pig? Ask Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, since the Republican vice presidential nominee has tried them all. No matter how many ways you dress it up, it’s still a pig. (“While other Republicans have fled Donald Trump, Mike Pence is doubling down on their campaign,” Oct. 11)

If anyone has a judgment problem, it’s clearly Pence. But when you consider Pence’s long career attacking women’s personal healthcare decisions and LGBT rights, his allegiance to the misogynistic Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump isn’t surprising.

Pence’s measured and dignified defenses of Trump’s vulgarity won’t save his Great White Hope. But his steadfast loyalty to “this good man,” a vulgar and serial adulterer antithetical in every way to his supposed pious Christian values, will forever stain his legacy.

Wendy Blais, North Hills

Note from KBJ: When I read the first sentence, I thought the letter was about Hillary Clinton, Porcine-American. By the way, since when is killing your baby a "healthcare decision"?

A Space in Time (1971). This song was released when I was 14 years old. I remember it well.

Here.

Here.

I quit the Republican Party in 2012 because the party leadership was entrenched in a downward spiral, enabling the Democratic Party goals rather than advancing a conservative agenda. This election confirms that suspicion. The Republican establishment elites have stabbed the nominee in the back.

There are two obstacles: A sudden nationalist move in the opposite direction and a prominent standard bearer. Enter Donald Trump and fed-up conservatives, independents and Democrats tired of being taken for granted. This includes minority voters and gun owners in all demographics.

Result? Trump wins. At which time all the pundits should find real jobs.

JIM KONONOFF, CORAL GABLES

Charles Krauthammer is a useful (to progressives) idiot. He puts the very worst spin on Donald Trump's words, just like leftists do. When an ordinary American hears Trump say that Hillary Clinton belongs in jail, he or she hears, "Nobody is above the law." When Krauthammer hears it, he hears, "I have adjudged her guilty and will send agents of the state to apprehend her and lock her up." This shows that an expensive formal education (Oxford University, Harvard Medical School) is compatible with linguistic incompetence and general stupidity.

What really rankles Krauthammer is that Trump will not be a warmonger like George W. Bush was or Jeb Bush would have been. Krauthammer thinks that Clinton is more hawkish than Trump, and therefore more likely to do the bidding of neoconservatives, so he is perfectly willing to live under a Clinton presidency for four years. That a Clinton presidency will make the lives of ordinary Americans worse rather than better doesn't bother him, for he and his family are insulated from such things as urban crime and decay, illegal immigration, and job loss due to globalization. I strongly suspect that Krauthammer has never been in a grocery store, hardware, or fast-food restaurant. He personifies the Washington establishment.

Tour de France (1988).

Here.

Here.