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

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Next endangered species: those who vote for free trade. (Free trade has been a disaster for this country.)

Did Jesus have a wife? See here.

American cyclist Tejay Van Garderen won today's stage of the Tour of Switzerland. He was in the saddle for almost six and a half hours. Van Garderen is in seventh place overall, with two stages to go. Here are images.

Emerson Lake & Palmer (1970). I just learned this song on acoustic guitar. It sounds great! Greg Lake wrote the song when he was 12, using the first four chords he learned on a guitar given to him by his mother.

Here, for what it's worth, are some bands or musicians I have never liked and don't listen to:

• The Grateful Dead. (I'll be grateful when all of them are dead.)
• Bruce Springsteen. (I would dislike him even if I happened to share his politics, which I don't.)
• The Rolling Stones. (The most overrated band of all time. Yuck.)
• Eric Clapton. (I can't think of a single song of his that does a thing for me. Some of them, such as "Layla" and "Cocaine," bore me to tears.)
• Bob Dylan. (I've heard it said that he's a conservative, but that doesn't make his music any better.)

You may commence hating on me.

To the Editor:

“You Can’t Shrug Off Rape,” by Emily Bazelton (June 12), notes that there are efforts to change the general rule in criminal law that “recklessness resulting from intoxication does not lessen culpability.”

Any such change must be rigorously resisted. If a person chooses to drink alcohol, smoke marijuana or use any other mind-altering drug, he or she has made a conscious decision and should be held accountable for any untoward results of that choice.

Anyone using such substances knows that he or she will be less likely to act responsibly and sensibly. Being drunk or high is no more of an excuse for harming someone than anger or hatred are.

At the same time, being impaired—as the woman in the Stanford rape case was—is never an abrogation of the right to be left alone and unharmed.

MICHAEL E. MAKOVER

Great Neck, N.Y.

The writer is a professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine.

Note from KBJ: There isn't a single thing in this letter that has to do with medicine, so why did the New York Times include the writer's occupation? It's mind-boggling. The letter writer has every right to express his opinion about what the law should be, but his medical expertise has no bearing on that matter.

Note 2 from KBJ: I put the letter writer's evaluative terms in boldface.

I'm curious as to how you (dear reader) apportion responsibility in the two recent cases involving animals: the Cincinnati gorilla case and the Orlando alligator case.