OF COURSE SHE DID: Hillary scrubs sexual assault pledge after allegations against Bill resurface.

FASTER PLEASE: Black hole made in the lab shows signs of quantum entanglement.

IN MY EXPERIENCE FINDING OUT WHAT QUESTIONS TO ASK IS MORE THAN HALF THE BATTLE: Finding Out What We Don’t Know.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I’m A Queer Black Woman And This Is How White Girls Use Me, Even When They Love Me.

THIS IS AWESOME: Squirrel Steals GoPro, Accidentally Takes Us On A Beautiful Tour Of The Trees.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Could your next cocktail be made by an ORANG-UTAN?

NOT ME. I WAS VERY HAPPY SINGLE, BUT I’M HAPPIER MARRIED. Karol Markowicz: Who Says Being Single Beats Married Life?

AT AMAZON, Soak Up Summer at the Summer Sales Event.

Plus, deals in Home Brewing and Wine Making.

And, Bestsellers in Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: When rulers despise the ruled. It’s like The Hunger Games: the Capital City, and its hangers-on, flourish, while the provinces starve.

ROGER L. SIMON: Trump Advocates ‘Extreme Vetting’ of Muslim Immigrants in Forceful Foreign Policy Speech.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: “Migrants wielding bats and knives have been smashing up vehicles on roads near Calais as their owners sit in traffic, reportedly ‘just for fun’. Local residents are warning others to avoid the area, saying that the migrants are not even checking to see whether children are in the vehicles before they set upon them.”

You could bring this to a stop in a hurry, but to do that you’d have to admit what’s going on.

TESLA UPGRADE: More radar, triple-camera system for next Autopilot version?

WELL, FEMINISTS WILL PROBABLY TRY TO BAN THEM FOR MEN FIRST: Will Sex Robots Destroy the Human Race? Experts Host a Tech Conference to Discuss.

I hope they don’t invite notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias. No platform for robo-hate!

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE? Hate-Speech Laws are ‘Fostering Hatred’

PALO ALTO HOUSING OFFICIAL RESIGNS, REVEALS FAILURE OF CENTRAL PLANNERS.

Failure? It depends upon your point of view — plenty of reactionary socialist elite California grandees are quite happy to maintain Palo Alto’s sky-high housing prices.

THE POLITICAL TRADITION OF PARTY REVOLT: “Never Somebody” isn’t new. The Daily Caller provides some recent history, including examples from the Democratic Party. Ed linked earlier today to this Deroy Murdock essay arguing that #NeverTrump conservatives are “are chauffeuring Hillary Clinton to the White House.” I made a similar case after the convention.

THERE’S NO REPLACEMENT FOR DISPLACEMENT: Infiniti’s variable compression engine is a huge technological leap.

BURKINI BEACH RIOT IN CORSICA: Burkinis banned in Cannes. Cultural and social conflict? Yes. On Corsica the families of the women wearing burkinis objected to locals taking photos of the burkini-clads.

OVER 20 YEARS AGO, Bill Stuntz remarked to me that these days a $25,000 car is so good he couldn’t see why people bought $50,000 cars. That’s probably still pretty true even without adjusting for inflation. Review: The 2017 Honda Accord.

RACISM IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: White Reporter Pulls Out Of Milwaukee Because Of Racial Threats.

THERE’S A LONG HISTORY OF THIS STUFF AMONG GUN-CONTROL “RESEARCHERS,” GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE MUCH-HYPED KELLERMAN STUDY: Gun Control Researcher: You Can’t See My Data.

And, of course, disgraced scholar Michael Bellesiles, who claimed to have personally reviewed gun records that were in fact destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, then claimed that all his notes were lost in a flood.

MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: New Sitcom Mocks Millennials — and They Need a Safe Space.

(Classical allusion in headline; link found via Small Dead Animals, who filed under the appropriate headline of “Generation P.”)

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

In the ramshackle apartment blocks and sooty concrete homes that line the dusty roads of urban India, there is a new status symbol on proud display. An air-conditioner has become a sign of middle-class status in developing nations, a must-have dowry item.

It is cheaper than a car, and arguably more life-changing in steamy regions, where cooling can make it easier for a child to study or a worker to sleep.

But as air-conditioners sprout from windows and storefronts across the world, scientists are becoming increasingly alarmed about the impact of the gases on which they run. All are potent agents of global warming.

—“In Rising Use of Air-Conditioning, Hard Choices,” the New York Times, June 20th, 2012.

Flash-forward to today’s New York Times headline: “In U.S. Jails, a Constitutional Clash Over Air-Conditioning.”  Alan Blinder, the Timesman who wrote the story tweeted a link to his article, noting that “Most of Texas’s state prisons don’t have air-conditioning. That’s not just a Texas thing.”

Given the brutal Texas summer heat, I’m pretty sympathetic to his argument that prisons deserve some level of climate control in the summertime. But I don’t work for a newspaper that has spent the last 30 years or so tut-tutting its benefits for the rest of us. Or as Glenn tweets, “How can air conditioning be a constitutional right? Euros think it’s stupid and WaPo says it’s sexist.”

Not to mention John Kerry’s recent assertion that air conditioning is more deadly than ISIS.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT GOING AS WELL AS I’D HOPED: Polio Response in Africa to Be Fast, Difficult and Possibly Dangerous. “After two years with no cases in Africa, experts were elated at the imminent taste of victory on the continent, considered the toughest front in the fight against infectious diseases. Those hopes were dashed this week when two new cases were discovered. Now Nigeria rejoins Pakistan and Afghanistan on the list of countries where the disease has not been completely eliminated.”