NEWS YOU CAN USE from the Los Angeles Times: throwing rocks and frozen water bottles at police is not violence.

STENCH AND THE CITY: San Francisco's summer of urine.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: If Donald Trump is awful, the GOP is worse.

I don't know about 'worse', but it is a close call.

Included bonus: a Carly Fiorina salute.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Government recommendations on breakfast were based on basically nothing, and probably wrong.

When faced with any Government recommendation, the only intelligent thing to do is ignore it.

A QUESTION for Socialist Presidential wannabe Bernie Sanders: How are you going to deliver all those unicorns you've put in your stable?

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Do as we say, not as we do.

Does anyone not seriously stupid think the EPA will launch a criminal investigation into itself?

STUDY SHOWS that the universe is dying. Big deal. A glance through the morning news shows the U.S. is dying faster.

COWARDLY CANDIDATE retreats before Black Lives Matter thugs.

Anyone with even an ounce of moral courage would have demanded the police remove them, arrest them, and jail them. Bernie Sanders - and his handlers - did nothing of the sort; instead they gave them the microphone.

CAN YOU CRY? Why 'emotional intelligence' is key to your success.

Sheesh.

FOR SECOND STRAIGHT MONTH, the State Deptartment fails to meet court-ordered Clinton emails schedule.

Why should it? The State Department knows damned well that the worst that will happen is a few days of bad publicity with the possibility of some low-level employee getting his/her hand slapped.

More. Maybe this judge will show some gonads.

GO FOR IT: Canada firm prepares NAFTA lawsuit against US believing Obama is ready to ax Keystone XL.

THE POPULIST TICKET: Trump-Sanders 2016.

THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER is looking good for tonight. Especially here in Virginia, where the forecast is for clear and cool.

A MOUNTAIN IN A MOAT: pictures from Pluto's moon Charon.

More at the Washington Post.

WE'VE NOTICED: Obama only offers condolences when it fits his political agenda.

TECHNOLOGY: New exoskeleton lets paraplegic stroll the streets. The technology's imperfect and the cost astronomical, but time and market economics will correct both in the relatively near term.

Expect to hear/see more.

THE TED RALL TAPES: He lied; he got fired.

Couldn't happen to a nicer 'cartoonist'....

I LOOK FOR the next ISIS-inspired terror attack to be in Seattle.

NOTHING'S CHANGED: From five years ago today.