I CAN SEE HOW THIS MIGHT WORK: How do you make a Nissan Patrol quicker than a Porsche 918? Easy. You turn it into a heavily modified GT-R with a truck body and 1600 horsepower.

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AUTOMATION: Ordering kiosks coming to 1,000 Wendy’s.

“They are looking to improve their automation and their labor costs, and this is a good way to do it,” said Darren Tristano, vice president with Technomic — a food-service research and consulting firm. “They are also trying to enhance the customer experience. Younger customers prefer to use a kiosk.”

Kiosks are also valued by the company for its ability to provide data about customers.

Wendy’s spokeswoman Heidi Schauer said higher-volume stores will get priority for the kiosks because demand for the technology is so high.

“This move puts them at the forefront of the kiosk and tech movement,” Tristano said.

Presumably they’ll cost less than $15 an hour to operate and won’t fall under the ObamaCare employer mandate.

They’ll also keep much closer tabs on customers’ buying habits.

PROGRESS: Kingston 2TB DataTraveler Ultimate GT Now Shipping As World’s Highest Capacity USB Flash Drive.

At $1,625, it isn’t cheap. But my first USB-capable computer cost almost twice that much (not adjusted for inflation), and came with a hard drive with one-one-hundredth the storage of Kingston’s little stick.

TRUMP COULD MAKE HAY OUT OF THIS: Sony, Microsoft Lobby Against Right To Repair Bills (Yet Refuse To Talk About It).

NANCY PELOSI: No ‘You lie!’ moments during Trump’s speech.

“I think we have to deal with this in the utmost dignity. We cannot become them; we don’t like what they did to our president,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday morning.

“We cannot be out-classed by Donald Trump, that would be the worst of all outcomes.”

Has Pelosi actually laid down the law, or was her plea merely for public consumption?

YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON TELEVISION! Trump Invites Victims of Illegal Immigrants to Congressional Address.

Did I mention you’ll be able to find me on the PJMedia home page this evening, drunkblogging tonight’s festivities?

LIFE IN A POST-ANTIBIOTIC WORLD: Deadly, Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Pose Huge Threat, W.H.O. Says.

The World Health Organization warned on Monday that a dozen antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” pose an enormous threat to human health, and urged hospital infection-control experts and pharmaceutical researchers to focus on fighting the most dangerous pathogens first.

The rate at which new strains of drug-resistant bacteria have emerged in recent years — prompted by overuse of antibiotics in humans and livestock — terrifies public health experts. Many consider the new strains just as dangerous as emerging viruses like Zika or Ebola.

“We are fast running out of treatment options,” said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the W.H.O. assistant director general who released the list. “If we leave it to market forces alone, the new antibiotics we most urgently need are not going to be developed in time.”

Britain’s chief medical officer, Sally C. Davies, has described drug-resistant pathogens as a national security threat equivalent to terrorism, and Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the recently retired director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called them “one of our most serious health threats.”

Last week, the European Food Safety Authority and European Center for Disease Prevention and Control estimated that superbugs kill 25,000 Europeans each year; the C.D.C. has estimated that they kill at least 23,000 Americans a year. (For comparison, about 38,000 Americans die in car crashes yearly.)

This is a problem.

NOAH ROTHMAN: The contrived campaign to make Chelsea Clinton a thing.

You might be surprised to learn that Clinton “takes down Trump” on Twitter on a regular basis, as Mashable helpfully informed its readership. In fact, Clinton is occupying a role that cannot be performed by either Hillary Clinton or even Michelle Obama: “a woman who doesn’t hold office but possesses both political power and the ability to speak forcefully about threats to American democracy.” The “political power” Clinton enjoys seems to have been conferred upon her exclusively by the reporters glowingly praising her snarky tweets.

Those tweets, by the way, are written entirely in her own voice. At least, that is the revelation provided to CNN by Clinton’s spokesperson. And it’s a “distinctive, sometimes sassy, voice America hasn’t heard before.”

Politico agreed. Chelsea Clinton’s tweets reveal “a spicy, sarcastic online personality” that contrasts mightily with “the uber-careful, wonky-like-her-mother” personality she cultivated on the 2016 campaign trail. Politico noted that Clinton has not “ruled out” a political career for herself, which is hardly a shock. Surely this barely concealed hagiographical coverage of what are a string of anodyne tweets softens up the beachhead.

If she runs, it won’t be Clinton’s connected handlers and the stories they place in influential news outlets that provide the next generation of Clintons with a national platform. It will be Clinton’s vaunted wit; the “spicy,” “sassy,” Casandra-like truth-teller the left needs so desperately in the age of Trump.

And it’s all about as genuine as her mother’s laugh.

TURNS OUT IT ACTUALLY DOES FEEL GOOD: Why do people swear?

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21ST CENTURY CRIME: 30 days jail for operator of drone that knocked woman unconscious.

YES, DAVE WEIGEL’S USE OF THE TERM WAS INDEFENSIBLE: Keith Ellison Wasn’t Smeared, He Was Exposed.

PAGING RAJ KOOTHRAPPALI TO THE WHITE COURTESY IPHONE: Siri & Sexual Harassment — Quartz’s Leah Fessler Investigates Apple & Google Voice-Activated Assistants:

I could go on, but it just dawned on me that I am arguing with someone who spent a considerable amount of time making sexual advances at inanimate objects (that can have male voices, by the way; I use a British male voice for Siri because I like to feel like I’m barking orders at Charlie Cooke) and then decided to write about it as if this was a pressing crisis. I have never made a sexual proposition to my iPhone, but I suspect if I did, Ms. Fessler would want it to report me to the Feds immediately — or maybe just blow up in my hand.

Oh how Fessler must hate the Columbia Broadcasting System with a white-hot passion.

TRUMP SLAMS PELOSI: ‘I think she’s incompetent, actually’

Incompetent, Actually might make for a charming holiday spoof.

WHAT IF YOU HAD TO DO YOUR JOB TODAY ON WINDOWS 98? Better that than Windows ME. Though what this story is really about is how bloated many webpages have become. . .

FAHRENHEIT 451 PERFECTLY PREDICTED THE LEFT MORPHING INTO INTOLERANT, CRYBULLY SISSIES: “To avoid being, if you will, triggered, this society chose to become its own safe space, where critical thought and challenging ideas are outlawed simply because they make people uncomfortable. As a result, this is a society of shallow, miserable people always on the verge of a tantrum at the slightest intellectual provocation. Abortion, divorce and suicide are facts of daily life. And when it comes to avoiding these triggers and protecting this safe space, they are also capable of horrific violence. Does any of this sound familiar?”

Earlier: “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.”

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POLLING: Donald Trump is the least popular person in Washington… except for everyone else.

The approval rating for the combined House and Senate stands at 29/60. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise because for a very long time now Congress has enjoyed rankings which are perhaps only slightly higher than that of Charles Manson. Still, if President Trump can take consolation from anything it’s the fact that the White House is still more popular by a margin of double digits. Also of interest is the “Right Track / Wrong Track” number. Last September it stood at 30/62. This month it’s at 40/51. Not stellar, but at least heading in the right direction.

How about the political parties themselves? The Republicans, sitting at 32/60, are about as welcome as ants at a picnic. In fact, you couldn’t be much less popular than the GOP unless you happen to be… Democrats. They managed to slide in at 31/58.

In terms of the individual power players inside the Beltway, Donald Trump might be able to find at least a small bit of “good news” when the mirror is held up to other influential figures. In the House of Representatives, Speaker Paul Ryan might be feeling rather glum about his 34% approval mark which is even worse than Trump’s. The only thing which might cheer him up a bit is to see that his colleague Nancy Pelosi is sitting at 19. Over on the Senate side, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer are nearly in a dead heat racing for the bottom with rankings in the low to mid teens.

It’s at least somewhat interesting that you rarely hear any of these other numbers discussed on cable news or written about at any length in the nation’s major newspapers. Bad news for Donald Trump is a headline. Bad news for other government leaders (particularly Democrats) seems to be of far less interest. The fact is that the nation is restive at the moment and undergoing a period of serious change.

Doesn’t fit the narrative.

THE NEW ANEMIA: U.S. GDP Advanced 1.9% in Final Quarter of 2016.

Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected an upward revision to a 2.1% growth rate.

The latest figures are a marked deceleration from the third quarter’s 3.5% pace, which had been the strongest reading in two years. They are, however, broadly in line with an economy that has, through ups and downs, settled at a roughly 2% growth pace since the recession ended.

The current expansion has endured for more than seven years, longer than the historical average, but its rate of growth has been the weakest since at least 1949.

Despite the low trajectory, GDP data from the end of 2016 and more recent indicators suggest the economy is on fairly solid footing as February comes to a close.

Tuesday’s report showed consumer spending, the main driver of the economy, was stronger than thought. Personal consumption expenditures were revised to a growth rate of 3%, compared with an earlier estimate of 2.5%.

3% spending growth isn’t sustainable for very long when the economy is growing a third slower than that.

BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE: Dakota Access Protesters Leave Abandoned, Frost-Bitten Dogs.

HOW THE BLUE MODEL FAILS: Connecticut turned from ruggedly independent to Blue despair in a generation.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: The Affordable Housing Crisis.

DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY: China considering offering financial incentives for second child.