by sumac | Feb 12, 2013 | Political Apologies
Wouldn’t you think mayors and tourism secretaries in a famous destination resort would be good with words? Isn’t part of their job to issue public statements without arousing public fury? Without coming off as heartless profiteers? Before dawn on February...
by sumac | Feb 8, 2013 | Religious Apologies
Two sisters have just left their church. Because their church is the tiny, savage, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), this means they left their families, friends, occupations, and everything they ever knew. The WBC, the shame of Topeka, Kansas, is notorious for flaunting...
by sumac | Feb 8, 2013 | Personal Apologies
This excellent apology defuses wrath and explains the strange appearance of the model on the cover of the...
by snarly | Feb 8, 2013 | Media Apologies, Religious Apologies, Scientific apologies
I have a real fondness for the sci-fi-and-fantasy site io9, even though I am only sometimes interested in fantasy and almost never interested in sci-fi. The topics io9 covers are so broad and quirky and interesting, and it is generally so attuned to sexism (not...
by sumac | Feb 6, 2013 | The Mechanics of Apology
In his amusing book Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners, and in interviews Henry Alford describes a six-week campaign of retaliatory apologies, or “reverse etiquette.” It must not catch on. Alford calls himself a humorist, journalist, and...
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