READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Clay Cambridge, Watch Baseball, Eat Hot Dogs & Drink Beer: A “Short and Sweet” Baseball Primer for Beginners and Baseball Widows.

A KOREAN WAR SB-29: StrategyPage’s WW2 aircraft series stretches out a bit. The SB-29 Superfortress variant was rigged for air-sea rescue duty. Note the one in the photo carries a droppable boat. SB-29’s also flew in WW2.

CHANGE: Move Over Spintronics, Here Comes Magnonics to the Rescue of Electronics. “As we approach the physical limits of electrical currents performing the same logic computations as previous generations of digital electronics, the question has become how do we continue to fabricate logic gates when the devices are too small for classical physics?”

THAT’S UPSETTING, SINCE THIS IS THE ONE THE INSTA-WIFE HAS: St. Jude Medical Played Down Defibrillator Failures for Years, F.D.A. Says.

TOM MAGUIRE SPOILS KEVIN DRUM’S FUN: Chatting With Fish About Water. “When is something that looks like ‘reflexive partisanship’ actually a reflection of the viewer? Ah, well.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1437: Lois Lerner Fears For Her Life, Asks Federal Court To Seal Her Upcoming Deposition Testimony. Oh, no. I think this needs to be public.

Unlike President Obama’s allies, the Tea Party has never killed anyone.

ANCHOR AWAY? CBS ‘Star’ Scott Pelley’s Ratings Tank as He Goes After Trump. Is He a Goner? But he got so many plaudits from his fellow media folks.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Will the Yale Snowflake Brigade be outside protesting the NBA championships?

WATCHDOG: Judicial Watch wants ethics probe widened to Democrats.

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee may have violated standards by disclosing classified information.

In the letter that requests the investigation of ranking committee member Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Jackie Speier, both of California, Judicial Watch cites other complaints to the OCE which were successful in garnering an investigation of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Nunes stepped aside from leading the committee’s Russia investigation after the OCE began their investigation.

“If the standard for filing a complaint or opening an ethics investigation is that a member has commented publicly on matters that touch on classified information, but the member does not reveal the source of his or her information, then the complaints against Chairman Nunes are incomplete insofar as they target only Nunes,” Judicial Watch wrote. “At least two other members of the House Intelligence Committee have made comments about classified material that raise more directly the very same concerns raised against Chairman Nunes because they appear to confirm classified information contained in leaked intelligence community intercepts.”

Sauce for the goose.

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MY LATEST NEW YORK OBSERVER COLUMN: Syria’s chemical weapons mess and Obama’s lies. Obama’s media buddies thought his red line meant military action.

TURKEY’S LOSE-LOSE REFERENDUM:

VOA commentary:

Regardless of whether Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan succeeds in bolstering his increasingly authoritarian clout in Sunday’s constitutional referendum, one thing is clear: despite a crackdown on his critics and the media, the country is deeply divided, with signs that the gap is growing.

That is bad, not only for Turkey, but for just about everyone with interests in the region, given the country’s economic power and historically strategic location as a bridge between East and West – particularly with Syria’s civil war and the fight against so-called Islamic State raging on its border.

NORTH KOREA’S LATEST MILITARY PARADE: Two hours of soldiers and missiles. The parade honored the birthday of Kim dynasty founder Kim Il Sung. Here’s the deep context.

SNAKE ON A CAMPAIGN: Samuel L. Jackson lends voice to ‘Stop Donald Trump’ in Georgia special election.

THE TEA PARTIERS PROTESTED THEIR OWN TAXES. NOW LEFTIES ARE PROTESTING OVER SOMEONE ELSE’S: Nationwide marches set to protest Trump tax returns.

JOHN HINDERAKER: How Many Countries Were Spying On Trump?

So just about every Western intelligence service was collaborating with the Obama administration in trying to elect Hillary Clinton. Yet, amazingly enough, they failed.

The blindingly obvious point that the Guardian tries to obscure is that the combined assets of all of these agencies failed to find any evidence of collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia. We know this, because the Democrats have pulled out all the stops. Both before the election, and especially after the election, they have leaked furiously to try to discredit President Trump. If there were any evidence of collusion between Trump (or even obscure, minor “advisers” like Carter Page) and Russia, there would have been nothing else in the Washington Post or the New York Times for the past five months. But they have nothing.

What was really going on seems clear. Everyone involved in this story thought that Hillary Clinton was sure to win the election. Why? Because they read the Washington Post and the New York Times. Plus Real Clear Politics and 538. The suggestion that the Russian government tried to swing the election to Donald Trump is ridiculous. The Russians thought that Hillary was the certain winner, and if–a big if–they carried out a primitive phishing expedition into Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s email account, and subsequently sent the DNC emails to Wikileaks, it was to cause trouble for Clinton after she became president.

Likewise, British intelligence and the other agencies mentioned by the Guardian thought there was no doubt but that Hillary would win. How could they curry favor with the new administration, expected to be Obama’s third term? By feeding negative information about the opponent who was sure to lose, even though there was no real significance to the intelligence provided.

That’s what happened. The fact that liberals still try to push the “Russia” story, even when it is obvious that they are out of ammo, is pathetic.

Well, no. The story about Trump/Russia collaboration was, I’ve hypothesized, created as a cover once he was elected and it was clear the reality that he’d been spied on would come out.

FROM ANN ALTHOUSE, thoughts on Elizabeth Warren and testosterone.

Is it just me, or has testosterone been in the news more lately? I blame Donald Trump!

Or maybe Rush Limbaugh. Althouse links to this recently rebroadcast episode of This American Life about testosterone, where there’s an interview with a woman who “transitioned” into being a man with the help of colossal doses of testosterone:

Griffin Hansbury: And I’ve gotten into a lot of arguments with women friends, coworkers who did not know about my past as a female. I call myself a post-feminist. And I had a woman say, you’re not a post-feminist. You’re a misogynist. And I said, that’s impossible. I can’t be a misogynist. I couldn’t explain to her how I had come to this point in my life. And to her, I was just a misogynist. And that’s unfortunate because it’s a lot more complicated than that.

Alex Blumberg:[LAUGHTER] I’ll say. Wow. Testosterone didn’t just turn you into a man. It turned you into Rush Limbaugh.

Griffin Hansbury: I know. That I was not expecting. That I was not expecting. . . .

Alex Blumberg: Or something. Are there other ways– other than the visual and other than the libidinal, are there other ways that you feel like testosterone has altered the way you feel or perceive?

Griffin Hansbury: Something that happened after I started taking testosterone, I became interested in science. I was never interested in science before.

Alex Blumberg: No way. Come on. Are you serious?

Griffin Hansbury: I’m serious. I’m serious.

Alex Blumberg: You’re just setting us back a hundred years, sir.

It’s funny, I was talking to a friend a while back who was very interested in math and science pre-puberty, but lost nearly all interest afterward, and she said, “when the estrogen came in, the science went out.”

Some other stuff in this interview reminds me of my friend (and former editor) Norah Vincent, who lived as a man for a year and wrote a great book, Self-Made Man. She, too, said that as a “bulldyke” woman, she was very masculine, but as a man — in her case, without hormones — she wasn’t all that masculine for a man. And that it was a lot harder to be a man than women think.

Meanwhile, also from This American Life, the most NPR line ever: “I have rage. Unfortunately, it’s impotent rage.” Also, the highest testosterone level among the NPR males is 274, which I believe is treatably low. . . . .

Plus: “If I can’t be the most manly in public radio, where the hell can I be the most manly?”

JOANNE JACOBS: Elite colleges cater to privileged know-it-alls. “At 38 elite colleges, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than the bottom 60 percent, according to an Equality of Opportunity Project study. High-income achievers may turn to activism because they feel guilty about their privilege.”

They should feel guiltier about their activism, since it’s butt-stupid.

WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM? Texas Mumps Cases Hit 20-Year High.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Is My Yoga Cultural Appropriation? What to Do About It.

—The Huffington Post, February 9, 2016.

● Catholic college in Kansas wipes ‘yoga’ from names of classes — it’s a Hindu thing.

—The Kansas City Star, yesterday.

And note these mocking paragraphs in the Star’s article:

College spokesman Stephen Johnson said that starting this fall, both recreational classes and for-credit exercise classes that once taught yoga will likely still be taught the same way, but instead will be rebranded as “lifestyle fitness.”

“We’re changing the name,” Johnson said.

The move to recast the practice of yoga, with positions like upward dog and downward dog, into classes of more generic stretching and breathing exercises has landed the college of 2,000 students in something of a doghouse.

Yes, to borrow a line popular at Faber college, they f***ed up; they trusted the SJWs, hoping that appeasement would sate the beast.

Related: “The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Reader Anthony Crifasi emails:

Glenn, I’m a member of the faculty at Benedictine College. I think you may have misread the Kansas City Start article – this wasn’t to avoid cultural appropriation or appease SJW’s. (The college practically has no SJW’s – it’s one of the most conservative religious colleges in the country.) It was in response to certain RELIGIOUS concerns about yoga from conservative CHRISTIANS.

I repeat, this had absolutely nothing to do with appeasing SJW’s or avoiding cultural appropriation at all – quite the opposite.

So noted.

UPDATE (From Ed): Yes, of course. I was poking fun at the (presumably left-leaning) journalist at the Kansas City Star for giving the college grief, despite their effort to do something that also placates the SJW crowd.

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STEPHEN L. CARTER: Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Strike in Syria. “The result is that the commander in chief can order the U.S. military into action whenever it suits his judgment. Many people, myself included, are uneasy with that hard truth. For better or worse, however, it’s been our practice for a very long time. Clinging to the long-dead notion that Congress must first declare war might be comforting, but it has nothing to do with reality.”

OH, GOODY: Zika Found in Common Backyard Asian Tiger Mosquito.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin Metro Area One of Top 20 Places in U.S. Where Women and Girls at Risk for Female Genital Mutilation.