by snarly | Dec 30, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Musical Apologies
Singer Ani DiFranco (or her people) scheduled a four-day “creativity workshop” at a former slave plantation in Louisiana. Many humans found this problematic. DiFranco ultimately cancelled the retreat…but her statement about why is abysmal. We really...
by snarly | Dec 28, 2013 | Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies
We here at SorryWatch want to exalt the good, not just excoriate the bad. Here’s an apology that’s very, very good. N. Wayne Hale was the launch integration manager at NASA in 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia exploded. After the disaster, he emailed...
by snarly | Dec 26, 2013 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
On Monday, Queen Elizabeth issued a royal pardon to Alan Turing, aka the father of modern computing. Turing was a mathematician whose work as a codebreaker during World War II saved the lives of countless British citizens. But he was also a gay man in an inhospitable...
by sumac | Dec 23, 2013 | Personal Apologies
Sometimes you think ‘I’ll just do one last tweet for the road!’ and sometimes you might want to think again. Justine Sacco, Communications Director at IAC, a big internet and media company, chose to tweet and fly. She was flying from London to South...
by sumac | Dec 20, 2013 | True Crime Apologies
Someone stole a life-sized statue of Jesus from a church in Toronto. This may have been easier than it sounds, since the statue was a) made of resin, b) outdoors, and c) not on a plinth but at ground level. Still, Rev. Maggie Helwig of the Church of St....
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