I thought I would share this here because you know Deadspin is never going to post any thing about an Equestrian sport and rarely about a woman athlete, but this is really impressive. Beezie Madden is first woman *ever* to win the King George V Gold Cup at CSIO5* The All England Jumping Course, Hickstead ~ and that's…

"How much money did _____ make?" needs to be retired immediately as a defense of anything's or anyone's worth.

Ugh. This is such a horrible story where everyone loses. Especially that poor baby.

I feel like, if you are looking into surrogacy, you should make it clear in the contract before inserting fertilized eggs that you have no interest in raising any potential disabled children, so that the surrogate knows going into it that she might have to abort, keep the disabled child, or give it up for adoption. …

brb moving to Scotland.

Sorry, did you say something?

"Women Start More Shit Than Men" would be a great title for a history textbook.

Except much of the violence in Europe is caused by Arab and North African emigrants. This time it isn't so much white anti-Semitism.

In a perfect world, if a criminal is holding a hostage in front of himself to act like a human shield, the police would NOT shoot the hostage in hopes of hitting the criminal. They would negotiate or hire sharp shooters to take him down. They would attempt to subdue to criminal while still protecting the innocent…

You don't have to hate a single Jew, a single person, to accuse a country of a really terrible act. I'm positive a good amount of the people objecting would still be upset if Israel was filled with teletubbies.

Even accusing the country of genocide doesn't make one a 'Jew hater.'

P.S. DISAGREEING WITH HOW ISRAEL IS HANDLING IT'S "SITUATION" DOES NOT MAKE YOU A JEW HATER.

One of the main conditions of joining the EU was for Turkey to officially recognise the Armenian genocide, which, as you pointed out, has never happened.

Turkey was more progressive and secular when I lived there as a kid in the late 60's. Ataturk is rolling over in his grave (at his mausoleum, where we went for field trips).

Yeah, from what I gather Turkey at one point was heralded as this beacon for Islamic democracy, but has since opted for the more conservative neo-Ottomanism?

Is there anything wrong with forming a judgment about under what circumstances a sexual assault is worse than another? Isn't that what we expect legislatures to do when they set penalties for different types of sexual assault? Should all types of sexual assault carry the exact same penalty?

The fact that you say "as a man who has not been raped" is so, so comical. You just said in this very article that he was sexually assaulted as a child. This is a post about there being no degrees of sexual assault in which you imply that there are, in fact, degrees of sexual assault when it is convenient for you.…

I need mind bleach now.