Is it that no celebrity has accused Bill Clinton that he gets a pass? Daily Bullshit, October 17-18, 2016

Brexit

Lisa O’Carroll and Stephen Collins, “Irish leaders fear Brexit will bring economic disaster,” Guardian, October 16, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/irish-pm-calls-brexit-summit-to-confront-looming-crisis

Sexual predators

Conspicuous by his absence from Sarah Kliff’s article: Bill Clinton.

Sarah Kliff, “Trump, Cosby, Ailes: It took celebrity accusers to make us listen to sexual assault victims,” Vox, October 18, 2016, http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/18/13306300/trump-cosby-ailes-sexual-harrasment

Supreme Court

By implication, John McCain seems to be promising four (at least) more years of obstruction if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. John Patty suspects that McCain is saying this only because he’s running for re-election^[1] and that might be so—in McCain’s case—but I very much doubt that just because Donald Trump has become an embarrassment for much of the Republican Party, that they’ll all sing Kumbaya because Clinton gets elected.

John Patty, “John McCain wants to block all of Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees,” Vox, October 18, 2016, http://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/10/18/13314336/mccain-block-clintoninees

1. ^[1]John Patty, “John McCain wants to block all of Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees,” Vox, October 18, 2016, http://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/10/18/13314336/mccain-block-clintoninees↩