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

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The Left politicizes everything, from housework to science to law to the military. The latest casualty is my own discipline. I'm glad I'm closer to the back end of my career than to the front end. Much closer.

It's all over but the shouting. Chris Froome of Great Britain (affectionately know as "Froomie") is on the verge of winning his third Tour de France. Tomorrow's stage into Paris is ceremonial, except for the contested sprint at the end. Here are highlights of today's 20th and penultimate stage.

Seriously? Did Bernie Sanders think he had a fair chance of beating Hillary Clinton? The corruption of the Democrat Party is wide and deep. Crooked Hillary is merely the apex of the pyramid. Bernie's role in the process from the beginning (he was too naive to realize it) was to make Hillary look presidential (by making her look moderate). I'll bet Bernie regrets giving her a pass on the e-mail scandal.

Conrad Black gets it.

To the Editor:

In selecting Senator Tim Kaine as her vice-presidential running mate, Hillary Clinton shows an astonishing tin ear for the prevailing political mood.

In an election year in which the energy on both sides is fueled by distrust and rejection of the entrenched insider status quo, where she just got a run for her money from Bernie Sanders, a man proudly proclaiming himself a democratic socialist railing against the “rigged” system; and where Donald Trump is running close behind her based on loudly reviling Washington insiders, she is apparently ready to choose a vice president who is part of the Washington wallpaper.

Her choice is a backslapping good ol’ boy who just got finished sympathizing with the put-upon banks.

And so starts the same old calculating, triangulating Clinton administration.

SHEL KHIPPLE

Wilmette, Ill.

Note from KBJ: Donald Trump will defeat Hillary Clinton in a landslide. Karl Marx himself couldn't help her.

Foreigner (1977). If you remember this song, then you officially qualify for "Old Guy" (or "Gal") status.

I rode my bike yesterday and today. It's brutally hot in North Texas. (Global warming, baby!) Yesterday, the heat index was 100º when I left the house and 103º when I returned (almost three hours later). Today, the heat index was 102º when I left the house and 105º when I returned. The rides weren't pretty and the mileage (34.2) on each ride was nothing to write home about, but I got the miles in and had fun. I've now pedaled 3,465.6 miles in 2016. I have a chance to break my all-time record of 6,205.9 miles. My official goal, however, is 4,903.7 miles, which would make this year my second-best (of 36).

John Pepple has many interesting (and well-written) blog posts.