- @bjork55 at Bjork Report has bad news about the resignation of President Hillary Clinton.
- At The Onion, the Obama family is finally re-united for the first time since leaving the White House.
- Max’s Dad really, really likes him some Joe Biden.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil chronicles the latest appointment to the Trump administration’s Department of Bigotry.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reports how Lexington Kentucky has constructed a rainbow themed crosswalk and how the Trump administration is trying to force the city to take it down.
- Andy Borowitz brings us news that Robert Mueller has decided that he will close his investigation after hearing Putin declare his innocence. “That’s good enough for me.”
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post keeps having to revise how low the Republican bar has gone.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has lots of feelings about Bill Cosby, Al Franken, and Donald Trump, and sees some differences.
- At The Moderate Voice Evan Sarzin offers semi-sorta mitigation for Al Franken as having come from different times as well as degree of offense.
- Author John Scalzi seems to have little sympathy with those-were-different-times defenses to sexual predation.
- Frances Langum brings the story from Meryl Streep of two personal experiences of life threatening violence.
- Tommy Christopher says that, as the Supreme Court faces the next big abortion case, all eyes will be on Neil Gorsuch.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce suggests that Starbucks preempts holiday controversy by placing bible verses on coffee cups. He helpfully offers a few suggestions.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds how British researchers, seeking more accurate application of ultrasound probes, have borrowed a technique from afternoon tea time.
- This week’s note in Trumpian “Alternative Facts” comes from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, who is fed up enough with the entire tapestry of false narratives to launch an online news service called WikiTribune.
Oh, by the way,
Hello. The current administration is trying really hard to make sure you don't know you have access to good, affordable health insurance. pic.twitter.com/VU10FkD2Xy
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) November 1, 2017