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

Two things come to mind as I read this:

1. You can't take it with you.
2. Thank God for death (the great leveler).

Note that Donald Trump is listed as having $4.5 billion, not $10 billion.

Maverick Philosopher (i.e., Bill Vallicella) has an informative (and entertaining) blog post about the use-mention distinction.

If (1) you're a conservative and (2) you oppose Donald Trump, you need to ask yourself the following question: Do you really want to be on the same side as the editorial board of the Boston Globe? Read this. That Trump has the enemies he has speaks volumes about his ability to lead this great country.

To the Editor:

“No drama Obama” reflects the character of a politician who does not “self-promote” very well, and whose relatively quiet voice has often been drowned out by the yammering chorus of anti-Obama reactionary Republican loudmouths and political media types. While Mr. Obama relied on being measured and thoughtful and appealed to logic and intellect, certain Republicans knew that their 2016 candidate would have to be loud, bellicose and intellectually monochromatic. I suspect “Missing Barack?” bumper stickers will eventually begin to appear, and perhaps we’ll be thinking, as Joni Mitchell wrote, that “you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone.”

JAMES LANDI

Salisbury, Md.

Note from KBJ: Reading this and other letters in today's New York Times made me think that I had gone down the rabbit hole with Alice. Who are these people who think that Barack Hussein Obama has been a good president? He is by far the worst president of my lifetime, and maybe the worst ever. Complete and utter incompetence, topped off by smugness, thuggishness, and narcissism. I consider him little more than a clown. A dangerous clown, to be sure (for nine more months), but a clown nonetheless.

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The Original Soundtrack (1975). Beautiful.

Paris-Roubaix, the greatest one-day race in the world, is Sunday. The riders have been out on the course, acclimating themselves to the cobblestones.

Addendum: Watch this finish. Pure joy.

To the editor:

Is there not one writer at The Times who has bothered to point out that drug tunnels would make the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall a joke?

Jon Hartmann, Los Angeles

Note from KBJ: What would we do without Jon Hartmann?