The Value Of Public Shaming
by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3VVCT)
The bad old tweets are an increasingly permanent component of the news cycle: An athlete does something good-has a good run of appearances, or gets drafted, or, say, loses a no-hitter with two strikes to go-and someone looks up his very old (and very public) tweets, which are racist and/or homophobic and/or offensive"