It's not entirely clear, and this is speculation, but if I had to guess it sounds like this couple planned to have a kid, and after finding it out it was going to be born with Down's Syndrome, decided to abort. If that's the case, then her decision to abort was not based on a desire not to carry a child to term, but…

But what's inherently wrong with that tweet? Just because it's a tweet? If a news station had sent a reporter to the scene, and had gotten an interview with someone who said they were a passenger, and related the exact same information...would that be a problem?

Okay. I mean, if I was watching a news story about something dramatic (like say, a jumbo jet crashing at an airport), I think I'd be interested in hearing real time information from people who were on the scene. For the media to break in, report "Hey, a plane just crashed in SFO, but we aren't going to do any actual…

"Of course, there's no reason to believe, any more, that accuracy is a value."

Well, the guy didn't say no one was hurt. He said "Most everyone seems fine." And I don't think he claimed, or anyone who re-published the tweet indicated, that his was a comprehensively reliable account of whether there were injuries. It was just a quick first person account which was necessarily limited because…

It's a fast moving situation and the public is better served by getting out information quickly. Checking the passenger logs to confirm the identity of a Twitter user saying he was on the plane in this situation is pretty pointless. The description doesn't say "a 100% verified passenger of the plane said the…

What a stupid fucking comment.

You're so dumb you thought Nickelback was a refund!

I'm going to get my wife to pray tonight. And I'll forgive sins all over her face and in her eye. And then we'll get a towel.

Well shit, I take it back then. Your comment was definitely so important and insightful that I'm glad you decided not to wait until you got in front of a device with a period button.

There's this new invention called the period it's great it let's people know when you're done with one thought and ready to move onto another it works really well to keep your writing from becoming incoherent after all each sentence only needs one subject and one predicate and maybe an adjective or adverb or two but…

Simmons is an idiot. People are entitled to change their minds about what is best for them personally and professionally. It's not a fucking marriage, it's a job. People who imply there's some sort of moral obligation for a coach or player to stay in a situation that they no longer want to be in (for whatever…

Uhhh...because when Deadspin (or any Gawker media entity for that matter) latches onto a target, they milk it for all its worth. That's kind of the way it works. Joe Paterno, the Redskins name, Manti Teo, people reading at Nat's games. It's called dedication.

Peter King's tweet was dumb, it didn't contribute to "discourse." It overstates the reason by a teensy weensy bit why he fell in the draft. Yes, he had "character issues," which is to say he smoked weed. No one was "right" about Hernandez, because no one thought he was going to commit murder.

"Randy Moss trouble" and "OJ Simpson/Rae Carruth" trouble are two different things. Nobody passed on Aaron Hernandez because they thought "Man, he has good hands, but scouts think he is likely to commit first degree murder or have knee trouble." He fell because he failed a drug test. No one thought he was going to…

I just fucked a dead cicada while filling out a joint tax return, so...

Hmmm...getting a bunch of people to stand outside in February (and be warmed up by other human bodies) in a town where there is NOTHING else to do and is mindlessly obsessed with sports vs. getting a bunch of people to stand outside in a crowd on a warm day (and be made hotter by being in a big crowd) in a town where…

"unless they had some EXTREME outlying talent like throwing a football"

The line about "she didn't get in because she was too dumb" is misleading. If you are in the top 10% of a Texas high school, you get automatically admitted to UT. That itself is an affirmative action program. But just because you aren't in the top 10% of your high school doesn't mean you aren't "qualified." Her…