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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

HEH: Heaven Has A Wall (Hell Doesn’t): Grocery Store Advertisement Stirs Controversy.

I’M JUST GONNA GO AHEAD AND JUDGE HER BY THE FRIENDS SHE MAKES: Farrakhan Praises Omar for Anti-Semitic Language: ‘You Have Nothing to Apologize For.’

UH-HUH: Maduro regime rejects aid, claims it’s sending food to Colombia.

Sending it to Colombian merchants in exchange for US dollars the regime needs to stay alive, maybe. Or perhaps the food aid will be withheld from starving enemies of the state and awarded to well-fed friends of the regime — in fine, old socialist tradition.

LYING LIAR OBFUSCATES ABOUT LYING: McCabe Gets Weird on NPR, Refuses to Answer About Lying Under Oath.

NPR’s Morning Edition on Monday split its Andrew McCabe interview into two segments. On the home page they were promoting Russiagate: “Andrew McCabe, Ex-FBI Deputy, Describes ‘Remarkable’ Number Of Trump-Russia Contacts.” On air, that segment never mentioned his lying under oath to the FBI. There was a second segment simply titled “Andrew McCabe Discusses His Firing.” McCabe’s answers were often refusals to answer, which Inskeep spun as “exceptionally careful.” Kudos to NPR for trying to explore it, briefly.

I wouldn’t have expected even that much from NPR. Kudos, indeed.

MORE, MORE, MORE: Ocasio-Cortez to Bill Gates: ‘I’m All Ears’ for Better Ideas to Tax Rich. “In a recent interview, Gates said her tax plan is too ‘extreme’.”

CONCERN TROLLS: Masked Protesters ‘Occupy’ Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Deface Fallen Agent Memorial. “F*ck your walls, f*ck your borders, we won’t take your f*cking orders!”

RECYCLING: Nissan gives EV batteries a second life powering camping trailers.

Nissan’s battery recycling solution is made possible by a device the company created called Roam. It’s a small cube that is packed with the lithium-ion battery cells pulled from first-generation Nissan vehicles and can be hooked up to an Air Opus trailer. Roam can store up to 700Wh of electricity and offers 1kW of electrical output — enough to power devices, small appliances, and the onboard lights and heating system in the trailer. Nissan claims that when the battery is combined with a 400W solar panel, it can provide power to the trailer for a week without interruption. The battery can also be recharged in just one hour when plugged into a 230-volt power outlet.

Clever.

COLD WAR II: With or without trade war deal, disputes between China and US set to intensify, says Beijing commentator.

As part of China’s reform and opening up initiative, the state had generally retreated from the market and economy in the period from 1978 to 2008, But since then, the state has made a comeback and altered the direction of China’s economic underpinnings.

China’s political and economic elites observed the global financial crisis in 2008 and concluded that China’s model of government intervention and state-owned economy system might be superior to the Washington-led western model of free enterprise. In other words, Beijing’s confidence in the so-called China model reached its peak.

It’s interesting that Beijing thinks that what happened in 2007-08 was due to an excess of capitalism, rather than the near-inevitable result of heavy-handed government tinkering with banking and currency, the finance markets, and home-ownership.

Which leads to this:

So when the US raised the issue of structural reform in the current trade talks – essentially asking China to give up the state’s grip on capital, business and technology – Beijing found it very hard to swallow.

I wish we’d take our own advice.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Rosenstein out in March and much, much more. “Why is Mr. 25th amendment Rosenstein still hanging around the DOJ? The good news is he is supposed to be out by mid-March.”

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Left-Leaning Media Runs Interference For Jussie Smollett.

POTEMKIN MISSILE: Russia Tried to Con the World With Bogus Missile. “The Russians hyped a cruise missile launch earlier this year. But a briefing by the CIA and a second agency determined that it was essentially a hoax.”

The alleged Russian misdirection came just days before the United States announced that it would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty—the treaty that Russia violated, in the U.S. view.

Almost nothing Russia showed off to support its claims at that press conference had anything to do with the missile the U.S. is most interested in, according to an assessment briefing put together by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Earlier this month, those two U.S. intelligence agencies determined that the cruise missile canisters and launch vehicle the Russian Ministry of Defense publicly showed at the briefing were not related to the missile that the United States has argued since 2014 violates the 1987 treaty, The Daily Beast has learned.

Helmut Kohl and Margaret Thatcher stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Ronald Reagan on putting Pershing II intermediate-range missiles into Europe — a move which forced the Soviets to agree to the INF treaty getting rid of everyone’s IRBMs. It’s difficult imagining Western Europe’s current leadership doing anything of the sort.

FASTER, PLEASE: Mulvaney told Trump officials their ‘highest priority’ will be deregulation.

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: How Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets.

Not just Apple:

Huawei, which recently surpassed Apple to become the world’s second-biggest smartphone maker, has been at the center of a trade fight between the U.S. and China amid accusations by U.S. authorities that Huawei steals technology. In January, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment accusing Huawei of pilfering trade secrets from wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.

U.S. companies such as Cisco Systems and Motorola have made similar claims against Huawei in civil lawsuits. Earlier this month, Chicago-based Akhan Semiconductor, which makes durable smartphone glass, said it cooperated with a federal investigation into theft of its intellectual property by Huawei. Akhan claims Huawei used the prospect of a business relationship to acquire samples of its glass, which Huawei then took apart and studied.

The Justice Department said Huawei had a formal program that rewarded employees for stealing information, with bonuses that increased based on the confidential value of the information. Huawei employees were encouraged to post stolen information on an internal company website, and they were also given an email address where they could send the information, which was then reviewed by what was known internally as the “competition management group.” Huawei assured employees they wouldn’t be punished for taking such action, the indictment said.

Other smartphone makers have accused each other of intellectual property theft. Most famously, Apple successfully sued Samsung for copying its products. But the accusations against Huawei suggest a more brazen and elaborate system of seeking out secret information.

Beijing’s unspoken pitch to Western busines interests has always been, “We’ll steal less IP from you than access to our consumers and workforce is worth.” But they’re really pushing it.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Stupid Midwesterners Don’t Understand AOC’s Job-Killing Joy.

TYLER O’NEIL: Facebook Bans Conservative Articles on Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax. “You’re not allowed to say that Jussie Smollett carried out a hate hoax.”

In the old-school blogosphere, freedom of speech still is free — in both senses.

HMM: Website Documenting Fake Hate Crimes Mysteriously Goes Dark after Adding Smollett Hoax.

POSTMODERN EDUCATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT? Researchers blame YouTube for the rise in Flat Earthers.