JOEL KOTKIN: California’s Boom Is Poised To Go Bust — And Liberals’ Dream Of Scandinavia On The Pacific.

MARK PULLIAM: Grounds For Concern? We have seen many examples of an “engaged judiciary” at the state court level, and it isn’t always pretty.

YOU CAN’T STOP TECHNOLOGICALLY DRIVEN  CHANGE: Or not without a high price and economic distortions. Invisible Disruptions : Deep Learning and Blockchain.

CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Missouri Legislature Overrides Veto to Legalize Permitless Gun Carry.

UH. YOU KNOW, I HAVE YET TO MEET A HUMAN BEING — OR CAT — WHO COULDN’T FIGURE THIS OUT ON HIS/HER/ITS/SMALL FURRY ANIMAL’S OWN: Shailene Woodley wants schools to teach girls to masturbate.  Shailene Woodley either thinks other people are impaired, or is an alien.

MY FRIEND LAURA MONTGOMERY HAS ESCAPED GOVERNMENT WORK (NO WORD ON WHETHER SHE GNAWED THROUGH HER OWN LEG): And has setup her own blog, dealing with space law. I’ll probably link her more later, as she’s about to start discussing how the State Department’s insistence that the Outer Space Treaties require overly broad regulation is wrong.  Meanwhile she has a new book out that you SHOULD check out. Out of the Dell (Waking Late Book 2)

TEACHING WOMEN NOT TO OBJECTIFY: At D.C.’s ‘Magic Mike’-inspired brunch, it’s all beefcake, with a side of bacon.

AH THAT GLOBAL WARMING: Russian scientists are ‘besieged’ by polar bears at a remote Arctic post. They apparently don’t watch American commercials, or they’d know all they have to do is park some high priced automobiles, upon which the beasties will dash themselves to protest the use of fossil fuels or something.  (My alternate intro for this was “But I haven’t heard of Al Gore visiting Antarctica”)

LIES D*MN LIES AND ECONOMIC NEWS: Reminder: Don’t take corporate earnings reports at face value.

NOTHING WRONG WITH HILLARY THAT CURING DEPLORABLE LEFTIST SEXISM WOULDN’T CURE: Hillary apologists’ response to collapse is demeaning to women. (Of course, if they valued women as people, not walking vaginas Hillary wouldn’t be their nominee to begin with.)

“DE OPPRESSO LIBER” MEETS “TUMBLING WOMAN”: Two new NYC statues are mute reminders of war.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HARDEST HIT: Donald Trump supports birth control without prescription.

HMM: Mercedes Is Reportedly Working On a Baby G-Wagen: The Mercedes GLB is reportedly a smaller, modernized G-Class-looking crossover set to hit the streets in 2019.

MICHAEL WALSH: ‘Polls Darken for Democrats.’

Put on your metallic blue Morpheus in the Matrix/Hillary at Ground Zero sunglasses and read the whole thing.

STUPIDITY SHOULD BE PAINFUL. Richard Fernandez helps ensure that’s the case.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Menthol Cigarettes Are Racist.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Should We Elect Supreme Court Justices? The Supremes are functioning more like a legislature than a court, and no legislature is above politics.

BOLT-ON SELF-DRIVING CAPABILITY: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year. “The Comma One is a $999 add-on shipping before the end of the year, with a $24 monthly subscription for its software, which Hotz says will be able to drive your car from Mountain View to San Francisco without requiring a driver to touch the wheel, the brake or the gas. This isn’t a kit that makes your car into a fully self-driving vehicle, Hotz is quick to note, but it is a system that can provide powers equivalent to Tesla’s Autopilot, without requiring that you buy a whole new car. “

THE RAVE REVIEWS JUST KEEP ON COMING: The Mitsubishi GT-PHEV Concept offers an unsightly look into the automaker’s future: It’s a plug-in hybrid that has 75 miles of range. “Styling may indeed be subjective, but the GT-PHEV Concept has a face that only a mother could love.”

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: WaPo/ABC poll: America is in retreat and life is getting worse.

KEITH OLBERMANN CALLS DONALD TRUMP THE MOST DANGEROUS MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE EVER (VIDEO).

But how on earth can that be? From 1998 until 2010, the-then employee of NBC smeared everyone from Ken Starr to Fox News to opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque to George W. Bush — the latter on numerous occasions, needless to say — as being the equivalent of Nazis. But when everyone is Hitler, no one is Hitler. Why would anyone buy his shtick today?

Besides, as Kathy Shaidle quipped, it’s far more likely that if elected, Trump’s time in office would likely resemble that of another, very different Austrian.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Should We Elect Supreme Court Justices? The Supremes are functioning more like a legislature than a court, and no legislature is above politics.