Thanks - I write occasionally, but it’s not my main job anymore. I wish it was more of a passion to pursue regardless of money, but as it is there’s other stuff I like to do in my free time. (Like commenting on the internet, apparently. Hm.)

I’m glad you wrote this. I may think that Tommy’s editorial decision in this case was severely flawed, but a single point of view is good for no one, and it’s really nice to see you guys come out with stories that will humanize him.

Julian Wilson is just coming to grips with the knowledge that he could have seen his friend die, and also the knowledge that he is apparently the type of guy who swims towards shark attacks.

Weird, isn’t it - some people freeze in an emergency, and others go on an autopilot that their brain only catches up to later.

Instinctive emergency reactions are the closest thing I can think of to a superpower (if they’re good ones). My father and I have excellent emergency instincts; my brother and mother have astoundingly horrible ones. I actually remember the moment I realized, as a kid, that my mother’s emergency instincts were not to…

Definitely worth noting that the other surfer in the finals, Julian Wilson, saw this going down from a fifty meters away and immediately started paddling towards the shark/man explosion.

You’re being overly precise. If your argument is that the shark didn’t see him from a hundred meters away and think “surfer would do nicely for lunch” before starting its run, then sure, I’ll go with that. But at the same time, once a shark feels threatened it tends to lash out in all directions, and he was in range…

I think they’re feeding off of each other at this point, lemming-style. Huge management issue that no one’s noticed that the employed staff are actively trolling readers. This is such basic people-management shit that it’s embarrassing to see.

Kara. This is not a good look for you. This is the sort of immature shit that will ensure you never get beyond Gawker-level blogging.

how about you chill

Fire them for being cannibals - I have it on good authority that they consume flesh and blood on a weekly basis.

Legally, is it true that being a passive bystander is actually a crime? There might be a fine line between “accessory” and bystander in some cases, but I don’t actually think it’s a crime to witness something and not act/report.

I completely agree that they seem to be a little tone-deaf on how they’re coming across here and focused too much on defending their actions, but I wouldn’t say “that still doesn’t make it ok for them to refuse to admit that she was really raped and they didn’t get it and let it happen”.

Totally possible. Then again, teenage girls are terrifying creatures and may have exaggerated what they knew/saw when repeating it in front of a third party. So there is the scenario where, as teenagers, they exaggerated something they saw which then fueled a rumor mill that is coming back to bite them thirty years…

The only thing I now wonder about in their marriage is the level of investment Camille had in guiding Cosby’s image and success. There’s the relatively common instance of a wife not knowing what her husband was doing because he kept it from her, or not “knowing” because she turned a blind eye. But in Camille’s case…

This sounds most likely to me too. If you look at news reports and court filings (and laws, for that matter) 30 years ago, it was such a massively different time.

What the judge still doesn’t seem to get is that she was threatening the children.

His wife left him in Israel and moved back to Michigan. Then he also moved back to Michigan. So that’s both parents living full time in Michigan, and when the kids get sent to a juvenile center, he takes a two-week business trip halfway across the world. I know this because I looked up an article with his side of the…

A judge can do whatever they want

Holy shit - after firmly establishing that the only one who could spring the kids from the Children’s Center is their father, this happened: