Because Ray Rice was white...

Spirit of the law versus letter of the law. I think this cop is embracing the spirit of the law, which is extremely rare.

The answer to the second question in the headline should always be "I was being a dick."

Anthony Cumia makes anger-fueled tweets (no physical contact), fired. Rice literally beats a women unconscious, two-game suspension. Yeah, clearly a problem here.

This is the greatest sports article I have read in quite some time. *slow starts dramatic clap scene*

Meanwhile, I still cannot land the jet on the NES Top Gun game.

Sometimes, the rival school has a better program of whatever it is you want to get into. For example, a Kansas fan who wants to get into journalism will be better off going to Missouri, an equally bitter rival as Louisville and UK.

The biannual Gawker Media attempt of minimizing their tendency to generate clickbait headers. I swear someone else at Gawker wrote pretty much the same thing within the past 6 months.

Why anyone would want to go hangout with a bunch of white, suburban yuppies is beyond me. Sometimes, I wish security would have denied me entrance whenever my friends would drag me to Power and Light District. This Ballpark Village sounds exactly the same. It's for white suburbanites and tourists, i.e. HELL!

This is the greatest comment in the history of comments. It makes all the mind-numbingly retarded comments I read on a daily basis worth it.

I understand what the OP is saying, but the black civil rights analogy is appropriate when explaining why people need to still announce their homosexuality in certain sectors of society. To start, the inequality (prejudice, unable to marry, etc) is extremely analogous to a pre-1964 America towards minorities. But why…

Good lord, if only that were the restaurant he was looking for. The Internet would collapse under its own weight.

All of that is true, but is it really all that bad to change the rules in order to convict someone who is clearly guilty? One can argue that A-Rod exposed a loophole and MLB responded accordingly to prevent future exploitation of said loophole.

Agreed. This is more of a question of "Is it okay to set an overly stiff penalty to a star in order to send a message?" It's more of an ethical question rather than a legal one. I'm rather conflicted on the answer to this question, but I'm leaning towards "Yes."

Except police/fire fighters/laws protect us from external factors that are beyond our control. Regulations that protect ourselves from ourselves is where my comment comes into play. And yes, I'm against seat belt/helmet laws.

It's called Darwinism.

Internet blogging such as Deadspin is good for a more detailed regurgitation of what print media did the legwork for. Print media still finds the news and does the investigations and whatnot. Internet news sites are more of an aggregation of print media. Without print media and the money and resources they have,…