And a pervy day to you, too

 Yesterday was not a gold-star day for abused women, despite what Phylicia Rashad says. They let Bill Cosby, one-time America's Dad and, since 2018, a convicted rapist, walk out of the joint. 

This was widely taken as exoneration by some people who didn't know any better.

It wasn't. The Pennsylvania Supremes let him out on a technicality tied to a deal he made in 2005 with Bruce Castor -- who served as one of Donald Trump's suits in his second impeachment trial, and apparently wasn't much smarter 15 years earlier.

What happened was, Castor swung a deal in which he promised not to charge Cosby with drugging and sexually assaulting one of the many women who accused him of the same thing, if he would testify in her civil suit. The Pennsylvania Supremes threw out Cosby's conviction based on the fact he was later charged in the case anyway, saying it violated the prosecution's deal.

This does not mean Cosby didn't do what he went to prison for. It just means Bruce Castor screwed up by handing the old perv an ill-considered pass.

Cosby, of course, maintains all that drugging and raping was actually consensual sex, which the jury didn't buy on account of it was ridiculous. But it's an  old, dismaying refrain for the accused in these cases.

But your Honor ... she wanted it.

Followed closely by How much did you have to drink, ma'am? What were you wearing? Why did you go up to his room with him?

Same-old, same-old. And it got trotted out there yet again this week, virtually at the same time a passel of judges made Cosby a free man.

Hear about this Trevor Bauer deal?

The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and social media gadfly was accused this week of strangling, punching and injuring a woman so badly she wound up in the hospital with "significant head and facial trauma," according to her doctors. This happened during a sexual liaison a couple of months ago, and it came out in the domestic restraining order the woman filed early this week.

Bauer's defense?

You've heard it before: She wanted it.

His reps say it was all "wholly consensual," and provided messages they say prove she was inviting "rough sex." Well, of course.

"But what if it's true, Mr. Blob?" you're saying now.

Well, even if it's true, all that does is prove Trevor Bauer is one sick SOB, and no one you should allow your daughters within fifty nautical miles of. Because who other than a sick SOB would say "OK, cool," to beating the hell out of a woman during sex and strangling her until she passed out?

So Bauer's either guilty of aggravated sexual assault, or he's just another perv.

Like we don't have enough of those on the streets already. And just added one more.