The same shit happened to a local station here in Ohio yesterday. People were losing their goddamned minds, and I’m like, “Assholes, you can watch the replay, or catch the highlights—your seeing it live will not change the outcome. Failing to take cover from a fucking tornado because your stupid ass cannot stand to be…

Just consider Wilbon another idiot. I have my degree in meteorology, and interned at a local TV station/weather forecasting company during college, and let me tell you that the TV meteorologists AGONIZE over whether or not to cut into live TV. Every time they do it, they’ll spend the next week cleaning out an e-mail…

It could be the 13th inning of Game 7; they HAVE to interrupt the broadcast. As someone who has covered the aftermath of numerous deadly tornados and tornado outbreaks, I hope Wilbon falls into the Potomac and is swept out to fucking sea. And I hope ESPN interrupts their coverage of whatever the fuck to tell me about…

That he’s not being ratio’d to hell for that take is a huge indictment on the ratio as an indicator of the bad tweet. 

Literally, by law, they have to interrupt broadcasting when people might die because of such shit. That’s part of their deal in the social contract when we give them the right to broadcast shit like Two-And-A-Half Men to the unwitting masses. Fucking what the fuck is hard about people still not understanding that? And…

Alas, I have been outvoted. But for posterity.

You know what I want, Aunt Becky? I want to be able to send my kids to college without going $100,000-plus into debt. I’d like to send them to their first-choice colleges — they both were accepted — but guess what we face? A horrible higher-education financing system that too often places ridiculous burdens on…

You’re a real piece of shit

Exactly. The only part that was interesting, was after he confessed and before his death, he assisted law enforcement to understand some of the pathology of serial killers. But it wasn't because he was a good guy - he most likely craved the attention and validation, and it made him feel superior. 

I agree with your take. I didn’t find the documentary boring at all, it was a pretty fascinating expose of a completely narcissistic sociopath. Watching him trying to run his defense at his trial and seeing all his lawyers just throw their hands up at him was something else.

In order to give adequate space for his victims, this documentary would have had to be at least 30 hours (considering he killed 30 women). I don’t think the point of the documentary was to point out how smart and good looking he was, but instead, that he weaponized his appearance (mainly being white) and intelligence…

“Plenty of women found him unsettling, and the ones who attended his trial still often saw him a monster”

I read an article this week that sums it up well. Ted Bundy wasn’t clever. He was white. 

So you use an article about women being dehumanized to ignore the victims of murder and push your own agenda? Fuck you.

I actually took away something else from the documentary - I’d only ever heard the much vaguer stories of Bundy, as handsome/charming/intelligent. While I completely agree that the documentary virtually ignores and dehumanizes the victims, I think it actually demystifies Bundy to some extent.

I think the mythology of Bundy as supposedly “charming” or “clever” is kind of baked into the bread. You can’t really tell the story in the context of the era without dealing with the ways he subverted people’s in retrospect absurd expectations—and how it was that and not the cold brutality of his crimes that created…

“...its unconvincing narrative insistence that its subject is important.”

It’s almost as if the writer didn’t take, say, 20 seconds to do any research about Bundy. Can you imagine?! (Also, I took way too much time trying to guess the noun in “...as he defends himself in the criminal justice...” but finally went for the most reasonable “system.” I could be wrong, though.)

but if you accurately show who he was than you normalize serial killing!1!1111! this movie will literally be responsible for murder. /s

Really struggling to understand how someone can watch this trailer and take it so literally as to think it’s a cute “will they or won’t they” romcom about a man trying to beat the system. What makes Ted Bundy interesting to people (at least to people who find serial killers interesting) is that he was an insane…