I was so sure this had to be fake that I went separately to IMDb to look.

This is...so, so horrible. Can someone please rescue Emma Stone from his clutches? And no, if Joanquin Phoenix is taking a turn as Woody surrogate, it does not make this better.

Ugh.

Well...It's not that I am cheering for abusers, exactly. But I do think that Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson have been mistreated by their employers in an insidious way. Their crimes should be adjudicated in a court of law. If the NFL was less corrupt and incompetent, I wouldn't object to some kind of employer sanction,…

Since if he wanted to play football professionally in America, he had to sign that contract, I think the moral might be, "bad things happen when monopolies are allowed to form and run roughshod over their employees."

And as many others have pointed out, it's a very special kind of creepy that the NFL behaves so badly…

I know you think you're not a racist, and perhaps in some broader sense you are not. But you are making assertions consistent with racist propaganda around this incident and policing people of color in general.

There is no concrete evidence that Mike Brown was going to take Officer Wilson's life, or that Officer…

Like you?

There are plenty of eye witness accounts as well as forensic evidence that he had his hands up when he was shot. It would have been nice for there to be a public trial, with a prosecutor not focused on helping the defendant get off, to try to determine what actually happened. Darren Wilson wasn't found…

That is seriously stupid. And I'm one who believes that plants feel pain and deserve more respect as fellow living things.

If some city in the deep south had done this, it would have been viewed as making fun of respecting animals. Raising turkeys in tiny crates with no dignity so that they suffer every second of…

I occasionally do watch NFL Live, in part because I thought Wingo was less of an NFL suck-up. I had to turn that nonsense off. Is he actually so stupid that he really didn't understand what Sherman was doing/criticizing? Or was that his attempt to avoid getting suspended? The idiocy on display — whether feigned or…

Behaving like what? Speaking truth to power? Taking a bike ride in rural Maine?

I did read your first line. I strongly suspect your response is gendered, despite your protests to the contrary.

Of course it's been politicized — not by me, and not by her. I'm not going to claim elected Democrats are all pure of heart and action in this mess, but guys like Christie and LePage are demonstrably…

Serious question: if a male nurse had vigorously protested such unjust and ineffective treatment, would you be wishing this on them? I don't get all the people claiming she's obnoxious for asserting that the state should follow ethical, legal and scientific guidelines. She went to another continent to voluntarily…

I think when confronted by hysteria-driven authoritarian overreach, being polite would be ineffective.

This is valid and important (and Gamergate is misogynist terrorism). However, it isn't only men who get Nice World on the Internet. It's more a function of homogeneity than privilege in some ways. I used to be in a ton of female-dominated online groups, and the dominant point of view was enforced primarily through…

I don't enjoy the hitting (usually, and certainly not when it results in injury). I watch it for the strategy, the incredible displays of different kinds of physical and mental skill, the psychology being played out, etc. I came to appreciate football late. I've only been watching seriously for three years.

I agree…

But Deadspin is a journalistic enterprise. Separate from the profit motive, if you consider it from the most idealistic, First Amendmenty POV, it's job is to shine a bright light on the world, both the good and the bad. If they ONLY covered the negative aspect of the NFL, then the kind of people who most need to be…

I see your point. But I think if Deadspin did a formal football blackout, it would take a significant revenue hit. There are a LOT of football pieces here, especially on the weekend. Given what my understanding is of how writers are compensated for page views, I doubt they put up all that coverage just out of the…

I'm don't think Deadspin should suffer a revenue loss because the NFL sucks. It already covers these corruption problems better than most, if not all, of its competitors.

Boycotting various media channels is a fine idea, but it would be more effective if it was an organization more closely allied with the NFL, like…

I hadn't thought about that in a while, but almost no one has ever commented on or apparently noticed my lack of an engagement ring either, even though they're supposed to be super-significant and there are so many annoying TV moments in which one's small ring is noted and shamed.

Huh. It's almost like it's an…

Anybody else here Team No Engagement Ring? Given that they started as a payment to affianced women for their potential decreased value on the marriage market if they had sex during the engagement and then the guy didn't seal the deal with the wedding ring, I opted out. I didn't need to be paid for my sexual value or…

Well, OBVS Sherman let Jackson have that touchdown because his dad used to drive him to practices. Or, maybe his assignment was inside, but you know, we wimminz don't understand numbers or strategy so that heartwarming story is all I processed. Seriously, that's a pretty sweet combo of easily disproved misogynist…

Banacek was awesome. There's also one where a train car disappears.

There's no possibility the Eagles draft Mariota through some weird crazy miracle where they don't stink up the joint this year AND they don't trade away their future, right? Watching Nick Foles is depressing. Not Christian Ponder depressing,…