NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Chronic Illness.

NO THANKS, LEFTY, WE’RE GOOD:

Jesse Singal points out that most black Virginians want Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam to stay in office (58 percent — more support than Northam has among whites). Most Latinos don’t want to be called “Latinx”. Only nine percent of Native Americans want the Washington Redskins to change their name. This signals that progressives have a class problem.

I know that’s a shocking conclusion, but crack open the smelling salts and read the whole thing.

JUST REMEMBER NOT TO GIVE THE APP ACCESS TO YOUR CAMERA OR MICROPHONE: The world’s first smart oral sex toy aims to close the orgasm gender gap.

IN A FIT OF HISTORICAL ILLITERACY AND SUPREME LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS, MADURO CALLS TRUMP’S MIAMI SPEECH DENOUNCING SOCIALISM ‘NAZI-STYLE.’

Channeling Stalin to own the cons isn’t a good look for someone whose ideology is built around a nationalized socialism.

WORST. NAZI. PRESIDENT. EVER. Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality. “U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, is leading the effort, which kicks off Tuesday evening in Berlin. The U.S. embassy is flying in LGBT activists from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalization in places that still outlaw homosexuality — mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.”

Yeah, but it’s problematic to go after those countries for murderous barbarism because colonialism or something.

THE GERMAN MILITARY HAS BECOME A SAD JOKE: “Fighter jets and helicopters that don’t fly. Ships and submarines that can’t sail. Severe shortages of everything from ammunition to underwear. If it sounds like an exaggeration to compare Germany’s Bundeswehr to ‘The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight,’ look no further than the army’s standard-issue assault rifle, Heckler & Koch’s G36. The government decided to scrap the weapon after discovering that the gun misses its target if it’s too hot. . . . Given Germany’s size and economic might, Berlin’s attention to security is surprisingly shallow; citizens and politicians alike often seem oblivious to the challenges the country faces. Though Germany faces growing security threats from both Russia and China, one wouldn’t know it hanging around the German capital. Much of the media now portrays the U.S. as a security threat on par with Russia. Public attitudes have moved in a similar direction. Security discussions are driven by a handful of like-minded think tank analysts who seem to spend most their time on Twitter.”

It’ll serve ’em right if they wind up invaded by the Poles.

IT’S GOOD TO BE STRONG: Michigan powerlifter saves man trapped under Jeep Grand Cherokee; The Jeep rolled onto its roof after hitting another vehicle.

CHUTZPAH ALERT: NBC’s Al Sharpton Demands Smollett ‘Face Accountability’ For Hoax. Here’s How Sharpton Faced Accountability For His Tawana Brawley Hoax. Spoiler Alert: He didn’t.

MAKE MEXICO GREAT AGAIN: Mexico introduces all-you-can-drink tequila train called ‘Jose Cuervo Express.’

I don’t know trains, but I know what I like.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON ON “MERCILESS SYMPATHY:”

The plague of phony hate crimes on college campuses, often coinciding with controversial political events, isn’t the product of coincidence. It is a strategy. Fictitious, politically charged stories of rape — Lena Dunham’s encounter with “Barry” the College Republican, the lies published by Rolling Stone, etc.—are not the products of coincidence. These things happen in clusters for a reason. That is not to say they are being centrally directed as part of some kind of well-tempered conspiracy, but rather that they are the natural result of a certain kind of politics attached to a certain worldview.

Merciless sympathy is used not only to silence doubters but to silence dissent. That is the purpose of conflating victims with political agendas. And if there aren’t any particularly useful victims around, you can always make something up.

Jussie Smollett wasn’t the first. He won’t be the last.

Read the whole thing.

OH: Former gay porn star who died in Ed Buck’s home told friends the Democrat donor was ‘the f***ing devil’ and a ‘horrible man’ before he was found dead.

VIDEO: Voter Snubs Kirsten Gillibrand in Iowa Restaurant: ‘I’m Just Going to Get Some Ranch.’ “Ranch lady is all of us right now.“

“Get the hell out of my way!” the wise man once said.

SPACE: This stressed asteroid could put a new spin on NASA’s comet blasting plan.

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CYBERSECURITY: 700 Million Stolen Accounts Go Up for Sale on the Dark Web. “Was a website that has your data compromised?“

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? Jussie Smollett Offered Job At CNN After Fabricating News Story Out Of Thin Air.

In all seriousness, Smollett’s continued career as an actor is likely now assured, as his stunt was aimed at all the people Hollywood hates. Just ask Alec Baldwin, who has worked steadily for 20 years, despite his own myriad issues.

YES: Boeing’s new 777X a ‘viable alternative’ to failed Airbus A380.

TO BE FAIR, PARENTHOOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN “GENDER BALANCE:” Parenthood contributes to gender imbalance in STEM employment, but it’s not just an issue for mother.

ACROBATIC COVERING FIRE IN OMAN, CLIFFHANGER VERSION: A soldier from 2nd Battalion, 198th Armored Regiment, 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi National Guard, readies his position for cover fire as part of a team movement drill in Exercise Inferno Creek 19. His team is moving through a wadi in Rabkoot, Oman. The soldier’s overwatch position is high risk but his perch may be the best spot to cover soldiers moving forward on the wadi’s floor. I’m guessing he can observe a valley twist or two his squad mates have to negotiate. Photo was snapped Jan. 28, 2019.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Australia’s Obsession With Hopelessly Intermittent Wind & Solar Wrecking Entire Power Grid.

Australians once enjoyed affordable power, reliably delivered: the chaotic delivery of wind and solar changed all that. Australian power prices have rocketed out-of-control: its wind and solar power capital, South Australia pays the highest electricity prices, in the world.

Mass power cuts (aka load shedding and demand management) and mass blackouts are the new normal. And yet, the lunatics responsible are hell-bent on doubling down to deliver the final and fatal blow to Australia’s Eastern Grid (geographically, the largest interconnected power grid on the planet).

As Jo Nova explains, electricity generation and delivery is a finely balanced thing; and the sudden massive surges and collapses that are part and parcel of wind and solar generation are taking their toll, with much worse to come.

Ayn Rand didn’t write The Return of The Primitive as a how-to guide.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Gender transition hormone therapy may increase cardiovascular risk.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.

RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES? The Bernie backlash has already begun.