AMMO GRRRLL returns with her take on 'Yes Means Yes'.

MORE THAN A THIRD of those who buy fitness wearables abandon them within a few months. Could it be that they find they don't like human (or mechanical) nannies nagging them 24/7?

Especially in light of the fact that the nannies are wrong most of the time?

MEGA-INSURERS could cost consumers. Could? The proper verb is 'will'.

And for the socialist Left, that's not a bug; it's a feature.

UNLESS IT'S YOUR PRIVACY: Medical privacy is overrated. I can understand the medical community's desire for gobs of data, but I don't think that desire obligates me to participate ... especially when it is patently obvious that there is no meaningful way to protect that data from exploitation by those whose motives are, shall we say, less pristine.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? State Department admits Hillary did not turn over all emails. The Left would never allow a little thing like honesty get in the way of accomplishing its mission of controlling America.

SPACE-X FALCON 9 launch failure just now about 2 minutes post-launch.

IEEE SPECTRUM: What does “Responsible Innovation” mean? In a nutshell, it's a politically correct buzzphrase for control of engineering by the Left, who will determine what is, or isn't, 'responsible'.

THE TRAGEDY of California's bureaucrat-made drought.

California "is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of ideology." -- Carly Fiorina

And, of course, their money.

SPACEX WILL TRY ONCE AGAIN to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a barge in the Atlantic.

The launch is scheduled for 10:21 a.m. EDT, and you can watch it live here beginning at 9 a.m.

JEFF JACOBY: A moral world requires moral violence.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, Confederacy of Dunces edition, is up. While I appreciate the need to 'remove' the Stars & Bars (first picture), this remains my favorite:

I'd prefer to ban the easily offended, however. Go see the rest; there are some very good ones this week.

NOEMIE EMERY: "What is it that South Carolinians know that people in Maryland, New York and Missouri do not?"

The claim is that the [Confederate] flag stands for racism and rage, and as such may have inspired the killer, and this may have substance. But the fact is that while the Confederate flag flew over the capitol, the state underneath it has become one of the most diverse and least polarized states of the union, and perhaps the most tolerant.

Of the many cases of white-on-black deaths that have roiled the country in the past year, the massacre in South Carolina has been one example in which death united, and did not divide, the whole population. South Carolina has been the one state in the union in which black people seem to feel they have found justice. If what's in a flag is what one sees in it, what some people saw may be wrong.

In 2010, the first Tea Party election, South Carolina chose 38-year-old Nikki Haley to become one of only six female governors, and the second governor descended from Indian immigrants (the first was Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, another southern conservative state). In the same year, Tim Scott, then 44 years old, defeated a son of Strom Thurmond in a primary election for Thurmond's old seat in Congress, becoming the first black Republican elected to the House from the Deep South since Reconstruction.

In 2013, Jim DeMint left the Senate, and Governor Haley appointed Scott to replace him. In 2014, Scott won a special election, making him the first black person elected to the Senate from the old Confederacy since 1881. His margin of victory was 23 points. South Carolina is now the one state in the union whose top three elected officials include two racial and ethnic minorities and only one white male.

It is also the one state in which killings of black men by whites did not lead to violence.

Maybe, just maybe, the flag doesn't stand for what the racists on the Left think it does. They might think about asking, not assuming, sometime....

NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT faces its toughest task: finding Pluto.

SWEDISH SUPERCAR goes from zero to fabulous to zero in record time. And then I catch up at the next stoplight....

I'D SETTLE FOR MORE LEGROOM: Technology to make air travel less stressful in the future.

PRIVACY? DATA SECURITY? In the era of Big Government, surely you jest.

EXPLAINING WHY I no longer subscribe to the Washington Post.

MONA CHAREN: "I wouldn’t expect the government to accept liability for screwing up, now or ever."

Smart lady.

NO EXCEPTIONS: Organized labor's push for an exemption to the $15 minimum wage they fought hard for has been refused.

Their slogan, "a union job at less-than-minimum-wage, or no job at minimum wage" hasn't seemed to catch fire....

TECHNOLOGY: Cheap lidar for automatic braking.

Sorry, but this strikes me as a feel-good by Nanny-Staters with too much time on their hands. The lidar is only good for 'parking lot' collisions where the Nanny State has already mandated (fundamentally worthless) collision-resistant bumpers.

Practically, the only winners are the auto repair shops, who benefit from increased inattentitive driving.